Word: qualm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Other Beltway's language does have the edge in one respect: informality. I felt no qualm about E-mailing "Hi Joel" to someone I had never met. ("Hi Jon," I E-mailed to Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley when he announced that he'd gone online, adding helpfully, "This is the proper form of salutation in cyberspace." Yardley answered, jokingly, "Dear Mr. Kinsley: This is the proper form of salutation in Washington.") The same informality applies to dress, which in this world--where style is set by barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality...
...qualm of Jewett, administrators and House masters with the current arrangement is that it permits a range of self-segregation: athletes comprise an inordinate proportion of Mather and Kirkland; Asians dominate Quincy House; various Quad houses have percentages of Black students above their relative numbers in the College; and the Eliot-Winthrop-Kirkland grouping has come to be known as the "White Triangle...
Feaster's only qualm with team life is having to run so much during practice...
...this is no feminist treatise. It's a bigOliver Stone blockbuster hellbent on reducing itsaudience to tears. The soundtrack soars (well, theJanus theater had a few problems with it, but itwould have soared...) as characters cry, hug orglow with confidence. My only qualm with "The JoyLuck Club" was a moment of silence near the end.The entire audience could be heard snifflingduring this brief break, and I couldn't help butthink that Wang and Stone had engineered it justso that we could all report to our friends,"Everybody cried...you must...