Word: objection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operative society apparently must put its own label on the goods. The repugnance of being served a hooker of Old Co-operative Rotgut is matched only by the nausea which would be a certain aftermath. Even supposing the Coop could stock a line of palatable intoxicants, one would still object to unfamiliar and untried brands. In opening a Budweiser, one knows what he is getting into. But who dares guess what would go into a Pale Bundy...
...Surely you've got the general idea by now and won't object if we use an abbreviated form for the rest of our calculations. We'll record a game such as the last mentioned by simply saying: Syracuse over Cornell by 55 (58)--the figure in parentheses representing Harvard's advantage at any given point in the process...
...with their bundles, dragging handcarts behind them, they straggled past Montmartre, cut through the Porte de Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked washbasins, and one of their most popular items was a cheap, "hard" mattress, usually filled with fleas. Thus, back in the 1890s, the famed Paris Flea Market began...
...shops of the fashionable Faubourg Saint-Honoré-in fact, canny antique dealers work both sides of the street. Sitting in their shop armchairs, slowly polishing their copper casseroles and warming pans, the dealers are well aware of the old truth that the more of a mess surrounds an object, the more a customer thinks he has made a find...
Bicycles are both silent and deadly, a menace to pedestrians and a terror to drivers, yet they have proven to be one of the most efficient ways for getting around Harvard Square. And the motor scooter, once an object for the adventurous rich, has become quite democratic and, one might say, even common. But both of these vehicles have been snubbed in University policy, or perhaps merely buried beneath the more weighty matter of parking...