Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there been much change over the last few decades? The touch-stones of college life--dorm life and professors, Saturday nights and spring break with friends--still have a decidedly elitist twist at Harvard...
...consulting with Billy's staff, had decided to use another of the organization's preachers. Months later, still furious, Franklin explicitly connected the incident to the politics of succession. "Listen, people will shoot you for $20; for $90 million, who knows?" he told Business North Carolina. "I wouldn't touch B.G.E.A. leadership with a 10-foot pole." Although, he added, if his father asked him personally he would give it "prayerful consideration...
...that's compassion. And the Democrats, I assure you, won't touch it with a 10-ft. pole. Why? Because a government subsidy is transparent. You can't hide the cost, in tax money, from the electorate. Forcing the employer to give the raise, on the other hand, has the politically felicitous appearance of a free lunch...
When Tamika explains that the sensitivity plant is so named because it closes when you touch it, one young child cries out, "That's phat!" combining her childish wonder with hip street slang...
...rise above politics. The next day you get up and Starr is Clinton's sworn enemy, with ties to the tobacco industry and right-wing foundations that would benefit greatly were Clinton to be crippled by Starr's findings on Whitewater and lose re-election. Clinton wouldn't touch a question about Starr until last Thursday. Then, asked whether Starr should step down, he said, "The facts are what they are, and they're plain...