Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever stop to think why that department store over in the square bears the name of an enclosure for chickens? You might be surprised if you were to investigate the significance of the name, "Coop" derives from "cooperative society," and a quick look in webster's tells us that the phrase "Cooperative society" designates "any association for buying and selling to the better advantage of its members or participants by elimination of middlemen's profits." Cooperative societies buy in large quantities at wholesale prices like retail outlets, but while retail outlets price goods to make a profit, cooperatives sell...
Shainess is quick to point out that she is in no way implying that the woman is to blame, that she is "asking for it" in any way that would exonerate the victimizer. Shainess is merely acknowledging that women contribute to their own exploitation by being easy victims. In fact, Shainess includes a chapter delineating the victimizer's psychopathology in an attempt to explain how opportunities for masochism come about. Though she regrets the existence of victimizers, she accepts them as a given, and suggest ways by which women can protect themselves. This includes specific advice on how to avoid...
...club's emphasis on quick service is apparent from the minute patrons begin to enter. Right after they are seated, student waitresses in black dresses and waiters in fuxedos begin delivering bowls of cheese flavored popcorn and drinks to the tables...
...imitating life imitating art, if ever there was one Ernest Flatford, B-School student with a taste for sentiment and bad prose, is rudely awoken by colleague and rival (and, inexplicably, object of his desire), the ghastly Prudence Tomb (Martha Coffin). Rabid purveyor of the go rich-quick-after-B-School American Drench, Martha, ever the killjoy, nags at Ernest to do his reading between intermittent snatches of an idiotic love duet. Just as we begin to feel at home, the Devil appears once again, in a new guise, armed with a repertoire of tired Harvard Jokes, after enough references...
Similarly, the Michelman Committee, which last October released an interim report on the progress of the Experimental Program, was quick to point out that "Neither the actual nor the planned departures from the standard first-year program are drastic enough to warrant the guinea-pig simile that 'experimental' suggests...