Word: spurn
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...discovered what it is. A female who is chewing on her boyfriend is distracted and allows him to copulate longer. That lets him deposit the maximum amount of sperm, giving him a better chance of passing along his genes. Beyond that, a sperm-filled female tends to spurn new suitors, ensuring that the suicidal male, not a rival, has the offspring...
...while paying lip service to chastity, the religious right has a voracious appetite for tawdry tales of sexual impropriety. These conservative Christians may spurn gossip about movie stars and trashy afternoon talk shows, but their interest in unsubstantiated rumors about Bill Clinton's alleged affairs is more than a healthy concern for the moral compass of the President. It represents an irrational hatred of Clinton and a perverse desire for smut...
That's where our most famous alumnus comes in. And remember, he'll punish you if you spurn His Cantabridgian Eden for the Purgatory in Connecticut...
...enough for a child to lose a parent. But when AIDS is the killer, the pain is all the more profound. Since most of the infected mothers are single parents, no father is around to fill the void. If the mother's drug use had caused her family to spurn her, relatives may be unwilling to care for her kids. Moreover, the stigma of AIDS causes many families to keep the cause of death quiet. The surviving children are isolated in their shame. "If they know, they usually don't tell anybody," Clymore notes. "Not their best friend, not their...
...some time now, American science has been falling out of favor -- with talented young people who spurn it, press commentators who slam it and congressional budget makers who squeeze it. But if the Nobel Prizes are any indication, the U.S. research community still has plenty of past glory to celebrate. In a typical near-sweep, six of eight winners in science and economics are American citizens, and one of the others got the prize for work done...