Word: crutched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Very few women writers can resist the temptation of feminine sensibility; it is there to be used, as a crutch, and the reliance upon it is expected and generally admired...
Since it is easier to phone somebody than to look something up, the hot line may prove more of a debilitating crutch than a boon to education. But so far, the hot-line faculties report, Kansas students have not thrown their Fowlers to the winds. The service has led to more, rather than less, concern about learning usage...
...cruelty, friends and enemies, sanity and madness. Unfortunately, other conceits in The Deer Hunter damage the film. A first-hour wedding ceremony, designed to establish the tribal rites of Clairton, is absurdly repetitive. The portentous sequences of the men hunting deer back home turn a literary device into a crutch...
...very convenient to have sex and color to pull on if everything else fails," Jordan added afterwards, at a reception for black students at Winthrop House, "We shouldn't use black as a crutch. I don't feel like hobbling on the crutch and making it an excuse for mediocrity...
...cutoff will only increase Viet Nam's dependence on the Soviet Union, which has been giving more than $600 million a year to the hard-pressed country. If its spat with Peking becomes semipermanent, as seems possible, Hanoi will have to lean harder on its Soviet crutch. This month, for example, Viet Nam did not have the cash reserves to pay for the 2 million tons of rice it needs to import this year...