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Word: ego (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...they outline come down to differences in style, or language. Compared to the "radical" reputation Millet earned in the late '60s with her groundbreaking book, the mellowed-out tone of her largely-improvised talk carried a sense of uninformed complacency, emphasized by an outdated rhetoric of "sex slaves," "deflated ego," and "male chauvinism." Her message of "make love not war" sounded at times like an apologia for the '70s image of aggressive feminism...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Porn a Cause for Expression, Not War | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

...initial big bet of the pro football season--giving two on the Redskins--bruised my ego as the Cowboys took a 44-7 thriller and KO'd my NOW account...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Money for Nothing | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

...arranged around his left ear, with the tongue still protruding. Daffy deftly pushes the tongue back into the beak (to a cork-popping sound effect), replaces the mandible, stalks over to Bugs and / mutters, "Let's run through that again." Bugs' cunning, Elmer's gullibility, Daffy's indomitable ego and Director Chuck Jones' comic artistry are all on display inside of 20 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: For Heaven's Sake! Grown Men! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...down doors to see me. Well, this was true for everyone in Wigglesworth A-11 but me. My only attempt at a relationship with a Harvard woman ended on an exclamation by one who said, "You want me to go to bed with you or something?" That killed my ego enough to realize that this Harvard man's libido wasn't going to be satisfied by any Harvard woman...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...trouble. Since no one describes himself as a certified pig, you have to say that only anemically immaculate roommates are acceptable to be grouped with only mildly piggy roommates. Don't say you are in athletic type if all you do is dance to Jane Fonda. Third, leave your ego at home. If it's not crushed by Joe Einstein it'll be crushed instead by some woman. And finally, take your time getting to your room...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

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