Word: unwantedness
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If the word is given to mean unwanted sex, then men are vulnerable too. A 1988 study of sexually active college students found that 46.3% of the women and 62.7% of the men reported having had unwanted intercourse. Peer pressure, coercion, intimidation -- all led students into situations they later regretted...
Ever since the warehousing of 140,000 unwanted or sick children in squalid state orphanages was uncovered after the downfall of the Ceausescu regime in late 1989, Westerners have flocked to Romania to adopt thousands of abandoned babies. A growing number of unscrupulous prospective parents have reached beyond the orphanages...
Shows what Bob knows. When he arrives, uninvited and distinctly unwanted, at the psychiatrist's summer retreat, he finds a family just this side of dysfunctional. For Leo is totally self-absorbed. He is too full of himself, his hopes that his new book will hit the best-seller charts...
The 32-car train, carrying 2,400 tons of contaminated dirt, left Michigan nearly a month ago. Eight states later, it's still looking for a landfill. Like the New York garbage barge that sailed the seas for five months in 1987 before it finally disposed of its malodorous cargo...
It is not surprising that resentment toward the press has surfaced during a war that enjoys widespread popular support. The public wants to believe things are going well. Any report that tends to contradict optimistic U.S. pronouncements, or support Iraqi claims, casts the press in the role of unwanted messenger...