Word: nauseum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regulations, which the NCAA described as a "major departure" from previous proposals, have raised quite a fuss. Large universities--investing hideous amounts of money in football and basketball programs, they claimed, would die. Coaches of revenue-producing sports--read: football, basketball ad nauseum--were outraged. Meanwhile, women athletic directors and athletes were outraged that the college coaches and directors were outraged. While everybody argued, HEW declared a "comment period" of four months in which anybody with anything to say about the problem would speak his/her piece. And 750 groups did, some with letters as long as 40 pages...
...Nauseum...
...course, what this latest series of revelations really does is open the U.S. up to totally new versions of historical events--complete revisionism. The CIA could now proceed to rewrite all kinds of foreign events: the war in Indochina, the Middle East, the coup in Chile, ad nauseum. And no one would ever know what really happened. After all, if the CIA could bribe the Nieman Foundation--as it did during the '50s, when it persuaded the then curator to accept a Japanese journalist then in the employ of the intelligence agency--it has probably been able to bribe just...
...private plane. She subjects him to one humiliation on top of another before he finally retaliates by brutally kissing her. She melts and love, or rather lust, conquers all. The two plan to murder Larry's wife and the story goes on. And on. Ad infinitum. Ad nauseum...
...launch his book with a section entitled, "Does Eric Sevareid's Kid Get Hit in School?" Hentoff advocates making corporal punishment flatly illegal in the remaining 48 states where "culturally-sanctioned acts of violence against children" are still allowed in schools. Hentoff uses one gory example after another, ad nauseum, to raise the reader's consciousness about the brutality of corporal punishment. Hentoff's technique closely resembles that of a muckraking journalist whose sensationalism leaves little room for serious social analysis...