Word: tic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have but two qualms preventing me from rushing out this minute to purchase one: 1) its degree of accuracy seems ill-fated to be minimal; 2) its "tic-tic-tic" would probably sound closer to "Dick-talk, Dick-talk, Dick-talk...
...Friday, the strike groups added a new ???tic. Student strikers formed picker lines at 4:30 a.m. to dissuade university employees, including dorm food service workers, from reporting to work. All dorm food services were effectively shut down. BAM then supplied free "liberation" food at distribution centers. A modest estimate of the strike's effectiveness at this time was that 15,000 students stayed away from classes. Operating under the slogan. "Open it up or shut it down." BAM and the Coalition had effectively shut down the university. LSA was operating at less than 25 per cent of normal...
...smugness. Here it becomes a dominant theme. The most vulnerable targets of Funt's sexual satire are social victims: fat ladies in print dresses, cavernous old men prattling about the new amorality, young men anxious for employment, unaware that the hidden waiting-room camera is counting every tic. Periodically, Funt breaks in to remind the audience that it is hidebound by the strictures of Victorian morality, that his X-rated candid camerawork is helping to free society from hypocrisy and cant. But if society were truly free, there would be no Naked Lady, which lives, like any thigh-slapping...