Word: tic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chool is $o much fun! I'm enjoying my$elf and having a $uper time. I knew that $enior year would be hard with my the$i$ and the job $earch, but everything i$ just fanta$tic. I can't think of anything that I might po$$ibly need. I really have become very $elf-$ufficient. And all I a$k for i$ your love and $upport. Love...
...Laura tic half-surprised Powell himself. But for 14 years, the first seven in juvenile court, he has presided over a revolving door. Kids he once saw in juvenile court, without dads, now appear before him as absent fathers, and he's seen far too many moms struggling alone. A few defendants later, he was at it again...
...changes--in a few, but crucial scenes--don't spare Tori so much as Daddy. Gone from the pilot is Marcy's uncle--and along with him, a layer of show-biz complexity and tension. But remaining is Sloane's Marcy/Tori, a brilliant comic creation down to her slightest tic, squeak and emotion-punctuating chest thrust. Marcy is really Pointe's most likable character, a good-hearted dim bulb made a nervous wreck by gossip and the stress of looking impossibly good. (A bulimia scene, also cut, was a cruel but apt picture of the flip side...
...George W. Bush has a tic that drives his critics crazy, it is his cocky impression of a self-made man. Texas Democrat Jim Hightower tossed off a lethal line about the father: that he was "born on third base and thought he hit a triple," which more than one adversary has applied to the son. Without the family connections, they argue, he would never have got into such elite schools, or found a slot in the National Guard during Vietnam, or got those jobs in the oil business or been given a second glance in politics...
...phonemakers want to make their wares even more entertaining by having them double as gaming machines. That may seem like a stretch, considering the screens are smaller than a pack of matches and the keys are about as large as Tic Tacs. But for some, these stripped-down games are the perfect way to kill time while waiting for the bus or standing in line at the supermarket. Every Nokia phone sold today comes with four or five games built in. This summer Ericsson will offer phones with mini versions of Tetris and Solitaire. And at an annual gaming convention...