Word: spunk
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gives me a big hug. And he whispers in my ear: ‘Just keep fighting. Tell the truth. And good things will happen.’” And for that, you couldn’t help but appreciate his dedication, perseverance, and yes, spunk too—even if you’re on the other side of the aisle. Pragmatist Republicans derided him as an anachronistic idealist, but they certainly had to respect the unpredictability of a vote that came not from calculation but from conscience...
...will be rejected by the snobby TV kids, Tracy answers a "Corky Collins" open call for dancers when Brenda is exiled. She arrives late at the TV station - "I thought we'd never get here! Darn bus wreck..." - and is grilled by the Council of Corky regulars. Tracy's spunk and terp-ability appeal to Collins (Clarke Thorell), who has the radical notion that "It's time we put kids on the show who look like the kids who watch the show." (Jerry Springer later took that idea and honed it to putting people on his show who were even...
SWEET HOME ALABAMA. Like most recent vehicles for Reese Witherspoon’s wide-eyed spunk, Sweet Home Alabama is all about being out of place, usually with native charm shining against cold elitism (see Legally Blonde, Cruel Intentions, etc.). This time, Witherspoon plays Melanie, a trailer trash expat who reinvents herself as a New York fashionista. Her blue-blooded boyfriend (Patrick Dempsey) rents out Tiffany’s to propose to her, but there’s just one little bit of unfinished business: she’s still married to her high school sweetheart. When she goes home...
...Lindsey in her carrier. This story humiliated me every time he told it, to the pastor of our church, to our neighbor Mrs. Stead, who was a therapist and whose take on it he wanted to hear, and to everyone who ever said "Susie has a lot of spunk...
...Spunk!" my father would say. "Let me tell you about spunk," and he would launch immediately into his Susie-peed-on-Lindsey story...