Word: foisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four-sided album. I wouldn't mind that she sings only stiff manifestos, enigmatic drivel, sentimental nonsense, or primal screams. What I do mind is a person who can use her connections to rip off the public and then pose as a liberator. Few other people could foist this embarrassment upon an audience, while far more talented people go unheard...
...classic misconception for the President to foist, but a misconception it was. For the young peoplv at the Democratic Convention, working not just for McGovern but for Humphrey and Jackson and Muskie, displayed seriousness of purpose which outreaches imagination. They concentrated imagination. They concentrated political thought, they seemed to know every twist and turn of the platform and of impending floor fights over rules and credentials. They were delegates and staff members, not cheerleaders. They didn't prim and prance for television, preferring instead to strategize about the business before the Convention. And they spent four long nights trying...
Archie: So. He's funny. I'm the foist to admit it. But I didn't split no gut. I do that maybe for Bob Hope. He's really funny...
...driving Chevrotlets. At any rate, Adam and Erica are suffering from the Great American Angst because each has begun to find inanimate objects more sexually attractive than the other's beautiful body. Adam's attentions have turned toward the Orion, a new model car General Motors is preparing to foist upon the public; Erica, in turn, has taken to shoplifting small items from the local Bonwit-Teller's. Brett DeLosanto, meanwhile, is facing the classic dilemma of the artist-in-society: should he continue to design cars or should he flee to California and make sculptures out of automobile parts...
...foist upon the student body the present election procedures for students? It didn't; the CRR neither made up nor sought to "popularize" the present procedures. Instead, they were drawn up by an ad hoc committee (half student, half faculty) under the auspices of the Faculty Council, on student initiative, and accepted by the Faculty...