Word: turned
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Becker's inspirations for Caveman are numerous. He describes a party that he attended with some of his female friends. Inevitably the discussion turned to relationships and the male gender. After one woman turned to him and said, "The problem is that all men are assholes," it dawned on him that he was tired of explaining why men were not "assholes, slobs, selfish or insensitive." He began to make a joke out of the situation. Seeing the women laugh, it occurred to him that the best way that he could explain the differences between the sexes was to turn them...
Cambridge resident Jill Wallach, Davis's assistant at the YWCA, said most residents see students as a valuable resource and that she hopes many will turn out at the vigil to find out more about city volunteer and support groups...
...turn in my application last year I had to walk for half an hour in the snow, and I was thinking: Why would anyone bother?" Burns said...
After the dramatic decline of Dirk and his friends, one expects the movie to conclude. After all, you are supposed to reap what you sow. It is here that Boogie Nights delivers its most surprising, and most deeply, American turn. Anderson's menagerie of sleazy characters find redemption in family. Albeit, the family is "non-traditional," but Jack Horner, director of exotic cinema, presides over his brood of porn stars and crew with the patriarchal dedication of Ward Cleaver. By the close of the movie, all the chicks have come back to the nest. In the closing sequence, we watch...
...committee's central concern was with the University's General Operating Account (GOA), an internal bank of sorts where Harvard requires its nine schools to deposit their working capital--a total of $1.676 billion in fiscal year '96. The central administration, in turn, invests the funds which are not immediately needed and uses these profits to cover about 47 percent of its budget, by far its largest income source...