Word: shade
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...King of Pain.' I remember thinking, Jesus Christ, how do you write something like that, especially if you're from New Jersey?" So instead they wrote Red Dragon Tattoo, about an exuberant moron who gets inked to impress a girl, and Utopia Parkway, which described guys a shade too old to be posting flyers for their band. The songs were ironic without being distant, and catchy without being Creed. And they didn't sell...
...After we decided that we wanted yellow to be our campaign color,” says Mahan, “we spent two hours trying to find the perfect shade. We called all the Kinko’s in the greater Boston area, and finally found the best yellow at 4 last Saturday morning...
...mansion, showed him bashfully stepping forward to place a garland around the neck of Jawaharlal Nehru, the man Gandhi chose to lead India after independence from Britain. If Gandhi is India's founding saint, for those of my grandfather's generation, Nehru, their first Prime Minister, was only a shade removed. They called him the "architect of the nation" and believed he would heal India's divisions and transform their impoverished country into a proud and independent world power...
...gridiron warriors—one might as well thank water for being wet or notorious Yalie George W. Bush for mispronouncing anything over two syllables. It’s just not in Yale’s nature to win at anything, let alone a football game. Indeed, a shade of cruelty surely lurks in the souls of the horde of Harvard undergraduates who will pack into chartered shuttles tonight and tomorrow to witness the bulldogs being brutalized. Wearing shirts that point out just how much Eli sucks, while the accuracy of such observations is beyond doubt, is something akin...
...March and April of 1974 and 1975, when observance of Daylight Saving Time was lengthened as a response to the oil crisis, 50 lives were saved, 2000 injuries prevented, and $28 million saved in avoided traffic accidents. While the early part of the morning commute might have been a shade darker, travel home from work and became much safer for taking place earlier with respect to sunset—including at Harvard where sexual assault and other crimes are far more likely after dark...