Word: rubbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them there is much with which to rub...
...gambling world is filled with--and lives off of--slickers who never had a prayer. But the gamblers never scorn them. "Losers are suppliers," says poker champ Pug Pearson. "When you beat a man, you don't rub his face in it. You shrug and agree that it was luck and give him another chance. At double or nothing...
Sometimes the hunger in my belly can rub off to other areas of my life--especially my reporting and news gathering which has been a boon to this paper and, I'm sure you're sure, to the whole of the community...
...there is the rub. Fame and infamy also turn out to be rewarded in the same ways. That is the source of disquiet, the secret price of living in a society that has precise epithets for men and women who sell their bodies but none for those who sell their souls...
...instinct to cheat creeps in during the trying moments of an exam or a game. Just as a pitcher may rub his baseball against an Emery Board when down 3-and-0 with the bases loaded, a student's eyes might want to wander when facing a clutch question...