Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, he says in the first sentence of the book: "It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off." That these Babbits would make such an effort--and make it repeatedly--is hardly surprising. Douglas never hesitated to jar public opinion; he waded in the thicket of controversy throughout his career and, several times, nearly lost his job because...
Urging each freshman to preserve "the courage of your own convictions," Horner espoused what she called the advice on top of the mayonnaise jar: "Keep cool, but do not freeze...
...ventures in to see his city relatives carries 50 pounds of grass--the Sack premier audience almost died a collective, happy death when he said he guessed it might be worth a few hundred bucks. Chong smokes billy-club sized joints and a cockroach he finds in the jar labelled "Roaches." Cheech sniffs salt thinking it's cocaine (and to climax this butguster drinks urine to slake his thirst). And at the end, a spaceship arrives to carry away all the pot bushes in a country field. Pretty humorous...
What concerns me most about the Abscam revelations [Feb. 18] is not so much that some of our elected representatives were caught scrambling to get their hands into the cookie jar. It is far more disturbing that I no longer feel a sense of shock at their clownish, unethical antics...