Word: snubbed
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McNabb inherited his humility from his parents. Sam McNabb is a retired electrical engineer, Wilma McNabb a nurse. Long before the Limbaugh snub, Donovan got a harsh lesson in racism. When he was 8, the McNabbs moved from the South Side of Chicago to suburban Dolton, Ill. They were one of the first African-American families to settle in Dolton. Shortly after they arrived, someone vandalized their home. Neither McNabb nor his parents carried a chip. They sent him to Mount Carmel High School, a diverse Catholic school on the South Side, where he honed not only his passing game...
...fearful that we made a mistake in invading Iraq - mocking her worry (the way Team Bush has consistently derided the anti-war contingent), punishing her (remember Richard Clarke?) or, worst of all, outright ignoring her. Very soon, my daughter would go elsewhere for comfort. And I would deserve the snub...
...commitment to a perspective from which we can delight in artworks both popular and obscure. The world would be poorer without Bruce Conner and James Benning and Hollis Frampton, but it would also be poorer without Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott and Monty Python. Those who snub one camp for the other are depriving themselves of a lot of worthy and compelling work...
...which draws power from a gasoline engine and an electric motor to deliver 60 m.p.g. on city roads, represents the realization of that objective. Since its debut last year, the car has been the toast of the automotive world. Despite its pedestrian list price of about $20,000, the snub-nosed hatchback is a badge of celebrity chic: Cameron Diaz and Harrison Ford took Priuses to last year's Oscars...
...Crimson boasts the nation’s best record with only two losses—as well as the best winning percentage at .8913—so one might well ask, why the snub...