Word: deign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lovers Club in Dzerzhinsky, where the editors conducted a random taste test with some finicky felines. Last week, in an article titled "May the Cats Judge Us," the paper reported the results of its poll: out of 30 cats, only a two-month-old kitten named Mura would deign to dine on the suspect sausage. Asked the Gazeta: "All kitties, like Mura, must loyally love sausage. That's the way it's always been since man thought up sausage. But why, the devil take them, won't they eat it? And why do we continue...
Kinder, gentler policies, also, if you would deign...
...would require in return is for a few Harvard scholars to deign to venture into such schools as Morehouse or Spelman for a year at a time. Presto, Harvard would have a minority presence on its faculty...
Even when feminists deign to consider the classic thinkers of other social sciences, their arrogance is staggering, Susan Okin, for instance, in Women in Western Political Thought, describes John Stuart Mill as a "far-thinking feminist" but a limited thinker. Okin claims that Mill failed to consider adequately life outside the structure of the family. Fortunately feminist thinkers have transcended Mill's intellectual limitations...
...tragedy has its root, after all, and usually the root is of a loving origin. America did not grieve over the destruction of a $1.2 billion tinkertoy, nor did it deign to inappropriately question the uncontested brilliance of the men and women of NASA. America found agony in the immolation of seven remarkable individuals. Who had families just like ours. And dreams every bit as heroic. And the fatal duty of playing pioneer to a frontier no more or less forgiving than the ones we face every day of our lives...