Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Having secured a brown paper bag of french fries, Alex heads back outside. He wears Timberlands, baggy black jeans and a big black sweatshirt. He is very tall. He also clearly runs the show. He walks over to the curb to talk to Jason, who is sitting on a short purple-framed bike, one foot on the ground and the other on a pedal. A bunch of girls on the corner sing, at full-throttle to no one in particular, "Happy birthday dear whoever." Then a short, stocky one jumps into the middle of the gang and, turning in circles...
However, Harvard's lead was short-lived...
...means of imparting some of the sophistication irony presumes to an otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away from the graveness of life, but a poignant attempt to raise something...
...deity by its martyrs. Many might die for democracy; very few, I think, for the 106th Congress. And how must a courtier live? He must survive by intrigue and scant trust, through deference to the king and his gods, by keeping out of the fields and sun. By, in short, the mean ends Purdy deplores...
...Republican filibuster left campaign finance reform dead in the water for a fourth consecutive year late Tuesday, despite Senator John McCain's no-surrender vow. All 45 Democrats voted against the maneuver by the GOP leadership, but they were joined by only eight Republicans, leaving them seven votes short of the 60 they needed to defeat the filibuster. Although the bill's sponsors - Senators McCain and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) - had narrowed down the legislation into a ban on the unlimited soft-money contributions that allow corporations to pour millions of dollars into party coffers, the vote followed last year...