Word: sniggering
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...Masters and Johnson research will be used by "enemies" to discredit the whole arena of sexual inquiry. "The public wants to find us bad, and that includes some of the media," says Mary Calderone, a noted expert on family planning and sex education. "There is a tendency to snigger. They report that we go around telling each other about our sex lives. We don't do that. None of us are voyeurs. This is a serious business. We've been serious about it for years." Lewis Durham, executive director of the Association of Sexologists in San Francisco...
...world that all feud animus has long since washed away. "I love those McCoys better than anything. But you know," he confides, "it was funny on the show when they asked this one McCoy girl, 'Name a New England state.' And she said 'London.' " His snigger is at least mischievous. "I really couldn't believe that: 'London.'" -By Kurt Andersen
...hollow triumph of right-wing moralists over timid network moguls has been to replace women in tight sweaters with aren't-they-adorable children. There goes the smutcom; here comes the sweetcom. Few tears will be shed over the demise of the jiggle-and-snigger shows. But even at their worst they suggested nothing more pernicious than that men do make passes at girls in Jordaches. The two forms of sweetcoms, the noble and the naughty, are deadlier. They announce that children are either sugar or sass-dewy-souled twerps or stunted comedians-and that they must...
...Snigger delightedly...
...someone else were responsible for their bills. Wages wildly outstripped productivity. Unemployment was the highest in Western Europe; inflation raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling a snap election for this week, Cosgrave has replaced romance with realism. The country, he says, must stop "this rake's progress...