Word: shun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...During the time when South Africa was under the apartheid regime, American universities in general tended to shun the area," said Robert H. Bates, Eaton professor of the science of government and acting chair of the Committee on African Studies...
...fashioned or out-of-touch. For half a century, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times has been an innovator in his field, a leader among journalists and politicians alike. He remains an unabashed liberal at a time when most in public life shun the label...
...rather than celebrating President Clinton's respectable gesture, and admire his humility in confessing that America has done wrong, conservatives have leapt ignobly to attack Clinton's expression of error and shun blame for what was among the most heinous crimes this country has ever committed. And they have managed to come up with a bevy of insipid excuses for their petty outrage...
...These men that shun tradition are destined to become a part of it," he thun- dered. "This is Wrestlemania...
...less empathic than Phil Donahue's and less excitable than Geraldo Rivera's. He's the intelligent, slightly smarmy observer of the antics around him. This is the peak of his career, but that doesn't mean he's getting as rich as Winfrey. Major advertisers like Procter & Gamble shun his show, which can charge only about a third of what Oprah does...