Word: dreading
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Perhaps they mean no harm. After all, if they really wanted to run roughshod over convention, they might have gone for the more muscular "working class" or even dusted off the dread "proletariat." Middle class is the wimpiest term in the lexicon of social taxonomy, meaning little more than not rich, not poor. Ask what class we're in, and we all shrug modestly and say, "Middle, you know, like everyone else...
...surgeons were willing to cough up hundreds of dollars each to finance the ASPRS's campaign to show the bright side of the breast-implant story. Though nearly 2 million micromastia victims have been cured, millions more remain untreated, as shown by the continued existence of the plague's dread symbol -- the A-cup bra. There have been many earnest attempts to reach the untreated: public health-oriented magazines like Playboy, for example, repeatedly print photos illustrating normal breast size for the woman in doubt. Tragically, though, many women still live in denial, concealing their condition under mannish blazers...
...whom. But all this progress could be easily reversed. The thought of North Korea's Stalinist regime brandishing atom bombs, for instance, could easily frighten Japan and South Korea into developing their own nukes. It would be a terrible irony if the early 21st century revived a dread that the end of the cold war in the 20th had seemed to put to rest: the fear that almost any local or regional conflict could set off an escalating nuclear...
...testing and unnecessary surgery, among other things. Insurance companies say patients, hospitals, doctors and thieves are cheating them out of $60 billion or more. Meanwhile millions of Americans are starving for care in the midst of plenty. Doctors have migrated away from rural areas across America, leaving families in dread fear of the tractor accident, the heart attack, the sudden illness. Another problem: the health-care system devotes so much of its resources to last-minute miracles that it neglects the more mundane realm of preventive medicine, where many terrible illnesses could be halted sooner or avoided altogether. "We have...
...mention profoundly ignorant: homosexuals can't be happy, homosexuals have identity problems, homosexuals can't experience true love. Others are based on carefully selected, wildly disputable psychological and sociological "evidence": homosexuals are neurotic, homosexuals choose to be homosexuals. Others are basically indisputable: homosexuals can't procreate, homosexuals risk contracting dread diseases...