Word: foisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College has become a big apparatus for certifying a student's relative worth for medical schools, law schools, employers," Lewontin says. "My attitude is that that's their problem. I'm not going to allow them to ruin my teaching--they've managed to foist off on the universities a certification process which screws up teaching...
...more than a century, residents of New York City's borough of Brooklyn have been bunking into friends over on Toidy-Toid or Eighty-Foist streets or udder pernts around the place. Whether they ogled da goils, hersted da flag or simply berled in the noonday sun, they absolutely moidered the King's English. The "vulgar speech" that H.L. Mencken denounced in The American Language was long the despair of philologists, as well as a rich source of argot and gag lines for stand-up comics. But now Brooklynese seems to have just about gone...
...find yourself engaged in a conversation with a Harvard man who will tell you in all sincerity that the worst thing that ever happened to Eliot House was admitting women--a comment that the same person would not rephrase and foist upon a black man or woman...
Newly-indoctrinated, oft-harried freshmen will always be subject to the advances of the entrepreneurs of HSA--Harvard Student Agencies. The Fuller Brushmen of Cambridge expend much energy trying to foist upon undergraduates class rings, their linen service and for those so inclined, bartending classes...
...peasant planting rice in a lagoon shows the futility of explaining Asian society with Western ideas. What does "medical care" mean to people who believe in reincarnation and bodily deprivation? What does "industry" mean to people who still spin thread by hand? Western observers nevertheless continue to foist their models on Asian society. More tragically, they attempt to make the society conform to their models...