Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynz eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There are other ways...
What is surprising, Wechsler says, is the number of heavy drinkers in college. "They drink it all at once and become intoxicated and are prone to get into the trouble intoxicated people get into," he says...
...People in college do not [necessarily] get addicted, but they develop habits," added Valliant...
Jeff Reardon came on to get the final out for his fifth save...