Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...common mistake to assume that all abuse is physical. The scars of other forms of abuse -- like unrelenting verbal cruelty -- can be just as apparent when children grow older, unloved and self-hating. "You can tell kids you love 'em," says April, a runaway in Hollywood. "But that's not the same as showing them. Broken promises is really what tears your heart apart." For April there is not much difference between insult and injury. "Beating kids will hurt kids. Sexual abuse will hurt a kid. But verbal abuse is the worst. I've had all three...
...been defining America's obsession with professional sport when he said, "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever." And that goes for women as well as men, for dockworkers and day-care specialists. The Octoberfest marks any fan's last chance to be a kid, ardent and hopeful. Till next year. Baseball, like it oughta...
...Callahan and Zweber sitting on the sideline--I can't kid myself about that," Restic said. "We put people in and we can't put it all on them because they don't get as much work. Once [Holy Cross] saw what was happening, we got pressure...
...Pope wearing a condom on his head. The exhibition, which was organized by WittyWorld, a U.S.-based magazine of international cartooning, also includes many sculpted depictions of male genitalia. Notes an American visitor: "These are people using a sexual vocabulary for the first time. It's like a kid screaming dirty words." Ironically, the current censorious frenzy inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe would make it nigh impossible for Mrs. Bush to be associated with such an event...
...condemn the plan as dictatorial, Gorbachev took to the podium. Banging the lectern with his palm, his face scarlet with determination, he expressed his exasperation with those who dawdled while the economy went up in flames. "We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "Let's not kid ourselves . . . I ask you for the authority to act." He finished to whoops of applause punctuated with shouts of "Let's do it!" There was no quorum in the hall, so no vote could be taken. But given the enthusiastic response to Gorbachev's oration, the proposition seemed almost certain...