Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular students who engage in sex?and who find, especially if they are girls, that their sexual behavior brings only a shady sort of popularity and more unhappiness. Wisconsin Psychiatrist Seymour Halleck ascribes a "bland, mechanistic quality" to some youthful relationships, and Beverly Hills Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson observes that, "instant warmth and instant sex make for puny love, cool...
...events beyond his control. He knew just which men he wanted and in what order of priority. He simply could not persuade them to run. Moreover, every act in the drama was played out in full view, each pursuit of a candidate, each offer and each rejection making instant headlines. It produced a confused jumble of bulletins, giving the public the head-snapping twists of a Ping Pong match. Most damaging in all of the rejections was an implication that none of the selected men dared mention: the fear that they would be joining a losing ticket...
...When B.B. King sings blues, I believe, for an instant at least, that all the women in the world are evil. And, for that instant, I am vindicated...
Bill gets tired after the first set, and at an instant when I am cornered by Chip Monck, he simply leaves. He had wandered off twice before, but he'd always come back, and each time he'd only gone to the bathroom. But this time he seems to have made his escape. There are other things to worry about...
...first two fingers of their gun hand; that practice ended when the military decided to conscript the fingerless youths for porters. Today, some desperate draftees dig a shallow hole, toss in a fragmentation grenade, and cover the hole with a foot. If done properly, the practice brings an instant medical discharge...