Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December she was telling her parents that a boy in her class was sexually taunting her with touches and comments. The Davises complained, but for the next five months found their concerns brushed aside. LaShonda was forced to sit next to the boy for months despite his lewd comments and his attempts to grab her genitals. The principal responded with a lackluster promise to "threaten him a little harder." LaShonda became withdrawn and depressed, and one night her father found a suicide note. Even now, six years later and in 11th grade, his daughter, he says, is still...
...right to these allegations. As you know, there are two kinds of FBI files: raw and refined. Raw files, which should be taken with a fresh acidic wine such as Muscadet or Sancerre, contain the most salacious and lewd rumors gleaned from the most untrustworthy and reprehensible scum on earth. Their original function was to provide amusing bedtime reading for J. Edgar Hoover (which is why he kept them in the bureau). Today they enable the FBI to keep U.S. crime statistics low by threatening to give the media the raw files of anyone even thinking about going...
There is little question that the explicit details of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair are lewd. But is it realistic to believe that avoiding conversation of the subject altogether will in some way "protect" academic integrity...
Dartboard still does not understand the big deal about wiring the rooms into cable. It's not a logistical problem, as the University showed when it hooked us all up to the Internet. It's also not a moral problem, since the Web has a lot more lewd and inappropriate material than a basic cable package. And don't even humor dartboard by saying it's a monetary problem, because we can think of at least 13 million reasons why that's not true...
Yesterday, my jog along the river was interrupted three times by men leaning out of their trucks, whistling and shouting lewd remarks. The day before, a man approached me as I was walking down the street and barked in my face, "Hey, lady, what's up with you?" Last week, I walked out of a restaurant because the man in the next booth spent the entire meal looking my friend over, from head to toe, and then, with a satisfied smirk, turned his attention...