Word: rub
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...Successful and high-achieving men so often want a woman who will be home at 5 [p.m.], who will be there to rub backs or give them dinner,” she said. “In high-altitude careers, where the air is thin, professionals need breathing space. For successful men it is so much easier to find that air by marrying women who will provide them with TLC. Women who really want that air to be there need to realize that they need to give real priority to relationships when they are young and still have options...
...Vanderweil is temporarily interrupted when his ex-girlfriend calls him on his cell phone. “Can I call you back in a little bit? I’m being interviewed for FM,” he says. “You don’t have to rub it in my face,” Vanderweil’s apparently jealous ex tells him after he explains his plot to house pre-frosh girls. “That’s not what I want to rub in your face,” he responds, with the utmost...
...don’t care because you are Miss Harvard. You have to pretend to be nice even though you’re a total bitch.” And it’s true. I’ve always had difficulty being completely honest with people who rub me the wrong way or complicate my life. It has taken mild forms like when an elementary school student from Mission Hill who attended the pageant approached me moments after my victory. “Miss Harvard, may I have a rose?” she asked. I begrudgingly gave...
...members are required to recruit new members, and how successfully one recruits determines how high one can rise in the leadership hierarchy. Disciplers encourage members to change their clothing, hairstyles and personality in order to be more effective recruiters. “We rub shoulders with our multitudes in the world daily and must figure out ways to influence as many as possible in order to get them into a relationship with God,” declared “Kingdom Teacher” Gordon Ferguson in a 1997 speech...
...role by watching tapes of an interview with Jeffrey Dahmer--"to get his conversational tone; it was so calm." Death to Smoochy is a comedy but not a light one. He plays a TV clown who, incensed at being replaced by Smoochy, a big fuchsia rhinoceros, tries to rub out his successor...