Word: coarser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which the other name? Is "lovemaking" a euphemism for the four-letter word that describes copulation? Or is this blunt Anglo-Saxonism a dysphemism for making love? Are the old forbidden obscenities really the crude bedrock on which softer and shyer expressions have been built? Or are they simply coarser ways of expressing physical actions and parts of the human anatomy that are more accurately described in less explicit terms? It remains to be seen whether the so-called forbidden words will contribute anything to the honesty and openness of sexual discussion. Perhaps their real value lies in the acidic...
...from this eminently logical beginning premise, Buckley immediately flips out into negativism. "To this end [rehabilitation]," the city should "liberate private investors from bureaucratic harrassment," he asserts in his position paper. It is the same old cliche line. Perhaps if Buckley had had more experience with some of the coarser landlords and real estate men in New York, he might see that it is only "bureaucratic harrassment" which saves (barely) Negro and Puerto Rican tenants from living conditions that would force them en masse out of the city...
...longer able to harvest enough hair locally to fill their soaring needs, the Italian wigmakers began importing hair wholesale from Red China. If it was coarser and less manageable, it was also a great deal cheaper: $20 to $50 per kilogram, depending on quality, compared with $110 to $300 for Italian hair. Then last November, alarmed at the growing number of Red heads in the U.S., the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control banned all imports containing Asian hair. Last month the U.S. Government sharpened the ban by prohibiting all wig imports from five European countries, including...
...these characters and many more are duly set in motion as Bradwell Tolliver, a native son who is now a successful Hollywood writer, cases Fiddlersburg for material for the film, and simultaneously seeks the springs of his own perjured promise. A snob, a bully and a coarser man than his creator seems to believe, Brad has a Southernness as sensitive as an aching eyetooth...