Word: tooing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Subways, too, are prone to fire. Underground water systems blow manhole covers 50 feet into the air.
Staffing, too, is important. Technological advances mean that fewer firefighters are required to operate hose lines and other equipment. Nevertheless, insurance agencies believe that a bigger crew means a better, faster, response.
She added that she was looking forward to coming to Harvard. "I love Princeton too, but I think it will be a good move," she said.
But a book, like his, that goes farther and accuses irony of corrupting public spirit goes too far. Cowardice, tact and irresponsibility all, as Purdy points out, often enlist irony in disavowing publicly a private conviction. For example, someone might say, "Why do I want to work in investment banking...
I don't know, but I can imagine it being at bottom an act of irony, a means of imparting some of the sophistication irony presumes to an otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation...