Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President George Bush called Harvard "the boutique of liberal ideas" this summer in the course attaching the "L-word" to his Democratic rival, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...last Saturday God sent word that he still held the Crusaders in high esteem. Holy Cross was down, 26-24, with two seconds left. All Princeton had to do was stop the Cross on the kickoff...
...last word to our athletes. Plain and simple: don't do it. Don't attempt to beat the system. You will only hurt yourselves and the people who look...
Shocked that people actually still used the word "nigger," I struck up a conversation with them. I discovered that they felt their words were not wrong or harmful. "I'm not prejudiced," the West Virginian explained. "I just don't like them." The two men continued talking throughout Jackson's speech, preaching their racial philosophy and explaining that if my local pub were in their hometown, Blacks wouldn't be permitted to enter. They claimed their local pubs admit Blacks only through the back door...
LYING, and lying well, is especially important in such advanced times as our own, when television cameras and microphones can pick up every gesture, every word, every nuance and display them to millions of titillated viewers. Recently, my employer said to me, "You'll find in the law profession, you don't always say what you believe." This was a lawyer speaking, one of those people who are supposed to fight for truth, justice, and the American way (actually, scratch the last term; after listening to all the campaign rhetoric, I'm not sure just what that phrase means anymore...