Word: sordidity
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...going to bore you with my sordid history of no-night stands and zipless handshakes. Suffice to say I'm a bit jaded when it comes to Harvard relationships (generally defined as "vicious power struggles between insecure, manipulative egotists"). Suffice to say that Valentine's Day is not my favorite holiday...
Those looking to Washington for guidance may be disappointed. As the sordid spectacle of the budget battle and the midterm elections showed, there is still no will in the capital to make hard economic decisions. "How do they ever expect our kids to pay that $3.3 trillion debt?" worries Tom Tenner, a retired appliance-company executive in Houston. "No one seems to care or give a damn. They feel we can borrow forever." Still, the capital is not immune to the jitters. Washington caterers say that guest lists are smaller and there are more lunches than dinners, more wine than...
...caller received the sordid details of the contest's whirlwind finale...
This admittedly is the stuff television movies are made of--sordid romance, good-looking co-eds and one dead girl. It is also the stuff of best-selling paper-backs. Pocket Books was thinking the same thing when it offered Melanie R. Thernstrom '87 the largest advance in publishing history for a story that began as the author's senior thesis. $375,000 for one unpublished author's attempt to come to terms with her best friend's disappearance and grisly death, and the trials that followed...
...addition to viewing the tape, the 18 jurors and alternates (who include 15 women) heard sordid stories of drug use and sexual escapades from Moore and Linda Creque Maynard, a friend of Barry's former pal convicted coke salesman Charles Lewis. Maynard described how Barry overpowered her and forced her to have intercourse with him at a Virgin Islands hotel in March 1988. Dixie Lee Hedrington, another Virgin Islands woman who claimed that she had been harassed by the mayor, testified that...