Word: rub
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...rough sense of Sept. 11. The good guys like Mike saved the day, the evil ones were blotted out, and we all bought F.D.N.Y. HEROES caps and pinned red-white-and-blue ribbons to our lapels to celebrate the victory. But to those who lived that story and now rub up against its shards every day, resolution is nothing more than a mass-marketed myth. Their reality is raw and unending. Fire fighters and police brawl at ground zero. Tales of divorces spawned by Sept. 11 circle around the fire department. Widows squabble with one another over money, and this...
Agnes Chu likes to use her hands. When this frazzled FM reporter showed up at her door, Agnes greeted her with a “how are you doing?” and a warm shoulder rub that made me think we had been friends forever. A laid-back San Diego native, Agnes snuggled cozily on her bed, a few mattresses piled on top of each other without a frame, and began to talk candidly about her work in the VES department...
...said, he did not want to be a part of the "apartheid baggage of the past." He was replaced by Van Schalkwyk, an articulate 37-year-old managerial whiz kid, whose boyish, bespectacled appearance soon earned him the tag kortbroeke, or short-pants. Van Schalkwyk has desperately tried to rub out the lingering image of the old National Party, but he has its history of hatred and oppression to contend with. His proposal of marriage to the A.N.C. could be a political kiss of death - "I wish them [the N.N.P. and the A.N.C.] a merry Christmas," says Suzman, "because...
Intelligence sharing, though more focused than ever in the face of a common recognized foe, remains an entirely national prerogative. But why rub it in? More than once since Sept. 11, European leaders have seemed eager to do just that. Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair held a minisummit to discuss Afghanistan last month in Ghent, just before a full E.U. summit, but pointedly excluded other member states...
...great leadership from Gellert,” Sullivan said. “His personality is starting to rub off on the rest of the team. He’s probably one of the most competitive guys we’ve had here in a long time...