Word: foisted
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...bidden his players to grow their hair too long or bushy so that they could learn to appreciate the tradition of playing in pinstripes--some wise guy commented that he'd like to see Steinbrenner in horizontal pinstripes. Steinbrenner's most recent indiscretion was in trying to foist an illegal contract on a pitcher he wanted named Andy Messersmith. Messersmith caught on and signed with the Atlanta Braves...
Word is in Alabama that he'll seize ancient Senator John Sparkman's seat in 1978, lacking the strength to foist his wife Cornelia on the slate the way he could Governor Lurleen. "He'll go to the Senate," said one party power recently. "Folks'll want to send him where he'll be happy. What the hell else would he do? He'll speak for us, like he always did. That's one thing about George. He may never get to be President. But he can always say what's on folks' minds. Shee...
...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...