Word: ist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selfish self-indulgent pursuits and have no cause to struggle for. But once we recognize that the satisfaction of our primal urges is our primary responsibility to society, I say that we will have a cause to struggle for--the liberation of our society from its patriarchal, heterocentric, food-ist, fecaphobic capitalism...
After conferring for a few minutes, we worked up the courage to approach a woman sitting with a baby stroller by the lake. "Wo ist Weggis?" we asked...
Looking back, I think I know why the Swiss woman was so rude. After all, it's as if two kids popped out of the Coop and said, brightly, "Wo ist Cambridge...
...case, the pre-med stereotype really does fit. So do the labels social wizard and musical prodigy. But no psychologist, neurologist, or any other "ist" can explain how to combine all these stereotypes into one generalization that describes the life of Madison Sample...
...call it the national pastime, if you do not count self- inspection. (A future without baseball?) Did I mention hibachis, Exercycles, capped teeth, diet drinks, sofa beds, Winnebagos, microwaves, VCRs, IBMs, electric pencil sharpeners, electric knives, electric chairs, Minute Rice, bullet trains, Dial-A-Prayer, Dial-A-Psychotherap ist, automatic windows, automatic doors, wash 'n' wear, Shake 'n' Bake, heat 'n' serve? Did I tell you the one about the traveling salesman, or the minister, the rabbi and the priest? The humor of our times would baffle you to distraction. A contemporary comedian brings down the house by relating situations...