Word: wade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear, simple and powerful, and it is great, rowdy fun to read. Brown balances his fond but unsentimental portrait of Joe Ransom with stinging | sketches of a weed-tough young white-trash boy named Gary, who tags after Joe, and of Gary's evil father, a human scorpion named Wade. If anyone doubted it, Flem Snopes lives...
...diehard Red Sox fan, but I think I'd rather be watching Steve Avery and Lonnie Smith take the field tomorrow night than Roger Clemens or Wade Boggs (maybe that's just because I know the Boston gang would lose...
Every day, as I wade my way across Lake Stoughton in my pre-chem, semi-conscious state, I am reminded by a horde of hungry, humming arthropods that the bathroom is essentially its very own biosphere--in which we poor humans are at the bottom of the food chain...
...about his legal philosophy, he may as well have been wearing a bag over his head. When pressed on matters of moment, he backed away from most every opinion he had ever expressed. Incredibly, he told Senators with a straight face that he had "no opinion" on Roe v. Wade, thus marking himself as probably the only person in the U.S. without a view on the Supreme Court's landmark abortion-rights decision. "Thomas' answers and explanations about previous speeches, articles and positions," said Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, "raised thoughts of inconsistencies, ambiguities, contradictions, lack of scholarship, lack of convictions...
Thomas may exude moral authority while categorically denying ever asking Hill out or ever talking about sex with Hill, but he exuded that same moral authority while insisting that he has no opintion on Roe v. Wade, or that his heartfelt defense of natural law was nothing but philosophical musings. We didn't believe him then, and we don't believe...