Word: sheepishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheepish student moved up in the line and adjusted his baseball hat before presenting his copy of Playboy's October issue to Kelli M. Keller '97. She opened it to her picture, and with a fat felt-tipped pen scrawled. "To Wilson, with love," across the shiny page...
...Sorry," she said with a sheepish grimace as she made her way back to her seat and regarded the critics sitting in stunned silence. A star simply does not have to fetch her own salt...
When the TF, somewhat taken aback, asked him why he was planning to do this, he looked sheepish and mumbled something about masochism. The other students in the room laughed, "Final clubs," one said...
Today, as we listen to the Russian ambassador's sheepish explanation of why his country would build such a device, the circumstances sound strangely familiar, "In the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. The Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year...
Since Herrnstein died in September, Murray is facing the new round of uproar alone. Not that he's sheepish. After Reaganites discovered his 1984 book Losing Ground, which said poverty programs actually worsened the problems of the poor, he became the sociologist liberals loved to hate. More recently he introduced himself into the debate on welfare reform by insisting that unwed motherhood, not joblessness, was the key problem. His solution was to get rid of welfare altogether. Murray says when he and his co-author started work on The Bell Curve, "((Herrnstein)) said to me, 'You know...