Word: rub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the presentation, the group marched over to the Quincy dining hall to rub their trophy in the collective face of this year's runners...
...egghead type, and I don't mean that disrespectfully," Robert C. Jebelirer, the Republican president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate told The New York Times last May. "I just don't see Harris Wofford as having the personality to shake hands and rub elbows...
...hours of training. "After six months on the job," he says, "seeing an inmate who messes up, my officers think they have failed." Direct supervision is a giant step for Texas, where sheriffs as a rule act tough and dip snuff. The touchy-feely character of direct supervision may rub them the wrong way. But what is forcing them to take Tarrant County seriously is its cost-efficiency and the mounting evidence that inmates are better managed. With overcrowding the most pressing problem in Texas jails, followed by a shortage of funds, most counties are scrambling to build quick, cheap...
...AWAY IS ALMOST AN OXYmoron. It is, to use two words that rarely rub shoulders, a genial epic. Big historical movies usually revolve around great figures (Gandhi, T.E. Lawrence) or great historical moments (the Russian Revolution, the parting of the Red Sea), and they always resonate with instructive messages for the modern audience (as in Dances with Wolves...
...when Hally learns his father will be leaving the hospital and coming home, he flies into a rage, ostensibly because he will have to "rub his gammy leg and empty his pisspots" again. But his real anger stems from blaming his father for being ill, an alcoholic and a racist...