Word: tad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hallo-weird this year," says Liane Curtis with a laugh. Curtis, an actress from Los Angeles, has two sons, ages 10 and 12, and admits she is a tad trepidatious about the forthcoming holiday. "I told both my boys to stay away from the malls because Mommy is paranoid. And they are definitely not allowed to dress up like they're preparing for jihad. No ninjas, no turbans, no water guns, no play guns. And with all this crazy stuff in the mail, I'm laying down the law. Nothing powdery! No more Pixy Stix this year...
...It’s really important to support the Red Cross. [Donating to] this drive is definitely the least I could do,” said Tad A. Fallows ’02, as he selected his favorite flavor of Peace Pop, Phish Food...
...flag wearing strikes me as a tad inappropriate. There's plenty of flag waving going on but our job isn't to join it. Our job is to report what's happened and to ask questions. It's to explore the war effort, not to be a cheerleader for it; it's to explain the new national solidarity, not to help forge it. Others can do that. CNN's putting a flag on the screen or the broadcast networks using flags in their logos, like CBS's America Rising seem okay. TIME, for its part, put a little red-white...
...sell magazines shows true desperation," snapped a New Yorker. "You will only hasten its demise." A Seattle reader objected to "tabloid-news antics" and questioned why TIME "devoted a cover to shark attacks since, according to the article, dogs bite many thousands more people than sharks do." A tad more appreciative was a reader from Michigan who said he was "glad to see my lawyer made your cover...
...world of American historians, Thomas Jefferson is considered a tad overexposed. That's why Joseph Ellis' 1997 National Book Award-winning American Sphinx was such a coup. Here was the familiar Jefferson--egalitarian aristocrat, slaveholding author of the Declaration of Independence, globetrotting homebody--plumbed one step further. Ellis used his empathic powers to convey how Jefferson explained himself to himself--as a young idealist constructing "interior worlds of great imaginative appeal," even if they didn't jibe with reality, and later on keeping his contradictions alive with an "internal ability to generate multiple versions of the truth...