Word: screws
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...should have been foreseen. News, after all, frequently covers violent, adult-oriented subjects, which puts many news stories into the same verboten range as porn. While RSACI officials have proposed offering a news exemption, it's hard to see how that could work. Readers of the sex-oriented newspaper Screw, for instance, might well consider it just as newsworthy as the New York Times...
Most of the people I talked to about this suggested I change the word slightly, to something like "fornicate," "screw" or translate it into Spanish, so that I would at least be able to recite the rest of the poem. But the choice of that specific word was important to me, and presumably to the author of the poem, and that choice was made even more important when the word carries enough impact that people are afraid to hear...
...When we don't necessarily agree with what they're passing, the solution is not to say, 'Screw you, we're leaving,'" O'Mary said. "If we are 'the best student government,' then we should be the ones taking the lead...
...very shy [in high school]," says Delaney-Smith. "It was so painful to live that way that I just said, 'Screw it! I don't care what people think about me.' I just was very, very shy. No one believes that because I am entirely different...
...corporation, excusing another racist remark as "narrow-minded but minor." His point is that "Texaco was forced to settle the case quickly for a large sum, $176 million, not on the legal merits but because of the worldwide furor of the bad transcript and the Times's awful screw...