Word: deigning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jain jokingly calls this part of their lives "doing the race thing." The "Wacky phase" they went through together dictated much of what they felt able to do with their lives at the time: "what you read [Ellison, not Thoreau], who you would deign to go out with [Blacks, definitely not whites], what your interests were in politics--all with very little emphasis on action...
There is no doubt that such a project would require significant organization and planning. Perhaps it is beneath the Undergraduate Council's dignity to deign to deal with such issues as selling burgers and frozen yogurt...
...embarrassing enough that a Harvard professor should deign to appear on the same stage with a woman who has made her fortune by persuading people to reveal to national television shameful stories that in a more tasteful age they would have gladly paid copious blackmail to suppress...
Urgent matters are not the only reasonadministrators deign to meet students.Administrators say there are no limits todiscussion topics...
...cover. Thus in the waning days of every summer, the designated Guide assembler begins calling agents, attempting to persuade a star to appear. Sometimes it works, as in the cases of David Letterman, Spike Lee and Dennis Miller. But sometimes, for one reason or another, the star won't deign to pose for the cover...