Word: deform
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's a great general lack of awareness, a lack of concern and a lack of outrage at these congressional cutbacks," Strossen said about the cuts in welfare reform "or welfare deform," that would force economically disadvantaged women to stay in abusive relationships...
...conduct for little children than take bread from the hand of a man." She rejects gowns and wears aviator's pants and boots--a loaded gesture in a play where one character refers to the social bond as corset that "supports the figure even though it does squeeze and deform...
...very impressive. "Police psychics" have been investigated scientifically and found to be of absolutely no use; in fact, they impede investigations. Yet they flourish, are consulted by law officers and promoted lavishly in the press. Spoons vigorously stroked all the way to a high polish don't deform unless a little actual physical bending is applied, but that fact doesn't interfere with the parties taking place in Washington. The "flyers" of transcendental meditation spend $5,000 and up to learn how to bounce around on a rubber mattress, but they never get airborne. No amount of evidence against...
...protests "could push the country in a neo-Fascist and nationalist direction," said Simeonov. "This problem could deform the democratic processes in Bulgaria and postpone the talks...