Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...populous country speaks, people listen--though it isn't always easy. Jiang Zemin, President of China, gives speeches loaded with fusty rhetoric, like "the primary stage of socialism" and "We will strive unswervingly to resolutely uphold Deng Xiaoping thought." His slicked-back hair, enormous spectacles and cryogenically fixed smile smack of the old-fashioned apparatchik. So wooden a leader is often in danger of being upstaged by his own podium...
...while this incident does indeed smack of the absurd, it also reveals an important insight into our educational system and into our public service systems, in general. This nameless 15-year-old girl has shown us, in a most unusual and simple way, just how big the cracks in our bureaucracy are, and how people can fall through without anyone knowing that they have been lost. Vander Weele, the chief of investigations, understood this and commented, not on the abnormalities of the situation, but on the broader awareness that it has fostered: "There are a lot of forgotten children...
...tribute to TV's new season would be complete without mention of the venerable medical drama, "ER." Surely, no premiere was more anxiously anticipated than the much-touted live episode. On this, the morning after, we at Dartboard join you all in your disappointment that an extra didn't smack Dr. Weaver with her crutch...
...losing Warren House. Construction is ongoing now on that building, and workers are cleaning the bathroom of the fictional bloodstains from Amanda Cross (a.k.a. Carolyn Heilbrun)'s Death in a Tenured Position so that the Women Studies Program will soon have a new old space to call its own, smack dab on top of the scene of the original crime...
...harmful to long-term development if it is confined to youngsters between 18 months and 6 years. Younger children have a poor understanding of the consequences of their behavior. If inappropriate behavior gets out of hand--especially if it poses a danger to the child or to others--a smack on the bottom may be the only way to control...