Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complaints of inequality by saying, "The party worker has ! only one privilege: to be in front, to struggle for the party's policies." Junior Politburo member Yevgeni Primakov got a bigger sneer when he argued in the Congress of People's Deputies that the rewards of being a party peer were in some ways a burden. During the hot summers, he complained, the chauffeur- driven black cars turned into sweatboxes...
Next, let's peer into the dining hall-- any dining hall. Wait, look upon those heads. Are they dunce caps? Are they beanies? NO! They are baseball hats that dot the dining hall like the little beacons of no-home-training which they represent. You do not, I repeat, you do not wear hats at the table. Not only is that inconsiderate to your neighbors, but it is extremely barbaric...
...Excessive Self-Congratulation. Although your mother and father may indeed be very proud of you for blowing your nose, don't expect your interviewer to wax ecstatic. Don't peer into your kleenex and announce, "That was a good one!" Above all, don't attempt to continue a conversation while your fingers are anywhere in the general vicinity of your nostrils...
...some students who attended the meeting said that the group might be addressing an issue which is already much-discussed on Harvard's campus. Suzanne F. Nossel '91, a race relations peer counselor, said that other Harvard groups already address much of the group's agenda...
...that all other classes at Harvard are objectively bad. Despite peer pressure, I never once doubted Stephen Jay Gould's brilliance during an entire semester of Science B-16, "The History of Earth and of Life...