Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joan Bok has proven over the past weeks that she has neither the breadth of vision nor the integrity to lead the Board. That the person responsible for the fairness of an election would have the lack of discretion to try to influence that vote is a gross disservice to the Harvard community. And one we ought not to tolerate. In the wake of her slimy effort to swing the election, Bok should resign in order to preserve some respect and authority for the membership and the activities of the Board of Overseers...
...gross misinterpretation of the law, [Lakian] has been robbed of the judgment to which the jury's verdict entitled him," the brief said...
...that inflation -- too many dollars chasing too few goods -- has been all but licked, we have a new problem: too many celebrities chasing too few political opportunities. Writer Mickey Kaus calls the celebrity-politics plague "celebritics." Not the old-fashioned type, where celebrities are bused in by the gross to glitz up a rally or other political event. But the new type, where the celebrity is the political event...
Women's self-esteem gets wrapped up in body shape. "There's an equation: if I don't have a nice body, I'm not worth anything. This seems to be a pervasive attitude. Many charming, attractive, lovely young women come in thinking they're `gross,'" says McKenna...
...Bulimics think: 'I can't believe I'm doing this--it's so gross.' They say to themselves: 'Once the circumstances change, I'll stop. Once I finish this paper, once the semester's over, when I'm done with my thesis.' And then they realize they cannot stop. By the time bulimics come in for help, they may have been bulimic for four years. They come in and say 'make this stop' or 'cure me,"' says McKenna...