Word: polloi
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...Final clubs: 1. Eight endowed all-male clubs located in their own buildings. The center of some students' social lives, the members partied a little too hard for their graduate boards and many have closed their doors to the hoi polloi of late. 2. Bastions of socioeconomic elitism. Unlike Harvard, intelligence is not a prerequisite for acceptance...
...disputes, since in the movie there is actually a statute regarding duels in the Skulls' rule book. These practices are an attempt to recreate the bygone days of yore when the hallowed halls of academia were available solely to upper-crust white males, and the rest of the hoi polloi were kept in their place...
...faux pas by suggesting McCain was in trouble if he couldn't draw more support in such a working-class Republican community. "Don't insult us," snapped Manon Crow, a Bush supporter. "Brea isn't working class." So much for the Bush spirit of reaching out to hoi polloi...