Word: smugness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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They are getting smug in New Haven...
...smug. When a young girl in New Orleans last week asked Tiger Woods how much he makes, the world's richest golfer gathered his thoughts, then said, "More than you." Petulant? On occasion. "There isn't enough time in the day or in my life to please everybody," he told TIME last week. "Even if you do that every day for the rest of your life--I guarantee you haven't done enough." He is legendary among his friends as a cheapskate, rarely carrying cash and traveling, one says, "like the Queen." Want more? He makes his bed every...
...hope for such alchemical results may originate in an anti-elitist assumption and an impulse to stick a thumb in the eye of power--the underlying reason, for example, for Jesse Ventura's election as governor of Minnesota or, again, for Truman's victory over the smug little man on the wedding cake...
...looking at a month of suspenseless votes, as the Pagong lined up for the slaughter like veals. This, in its way, could be as dangerous as having people knowing the winner. So why not float a rumor that some of the Pagong made it to the Final Four? We smug viewers who bought it would tune in anyway, to see how the Tagi alliance fell apart - which it hasn't, except for the defection of Kelly...
...arch as always, rolling up all the drumbeat stuff and depositing it in the belly of a national poll story, which leads smug. "George W. Bush holds a modest lead over Al Gore but a striking array of strategic advantages as unified Republicans flock here to launch their drive to retake the White House." The lead...