Word: demeaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newspaper article he wrote in 1973, he complained about a gawking public who "demean and degrade my dignity." Few could know, he said, what it meant to be 7 ft. tall. "Hell, even [jockey] Willie Shoemaker doesn't have my problem. At least everyone was his size once." Height accounted for merely part of his gianthood. I once went down to courtside at halftime to get a closer look at him. His hands were the size of easy chairs, his head, nose, eyes, everything colossal. And he was standing around with some of the biggest men on Earth...
...another year, presumably enlivening class but probably not serving Florida's future terribly well. How did she stay so long? She chose the right career: rigid work rules and languorous appeals procedures make teaching a profession from which it is almost impossible to be fired. Which isn't to demean the millions of teachers who work hard for sweatshop wages. But when, for example, only .02% of Florida teachers were dismissed for incompetence last year, you know there's a problem...
...case that EPE quickly became known as the Darth Vader of the merchandising-licensing business. "All we want," says Soden, "is to run our business and not have every little schlocky guy around ripping off Elvis and putting his face on edible underwear and all kinds of things that demean the long-term value of what we've got." One of these cases went all the way to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which in an oft-cited landmark 1991 case involving a British retailer named Elvisly Yours--yes, they were selling edible Elvis panties--upheld the Tennessee...
...think I'm very well qualified," Deuhay says, and then adds quickly, "Not to demean the qualifications of other candidates...
...Witt has projected the possibility of offense in the African American community by his reading that those images demean black men, but there has been no investigation of the response of that community," she said...