Word: wallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program of catastrophic health insurance for aged and disabled Medicare recipients. Such a program would be of immense help to the millions of Americans who live in fear of bankruptcy or--even worse--of not receiving medical care they may desperately need should catastrophe hit. But Congress should not wallow in self-congratulation if it passes this extension of Medicare. Although important in itself, it would not address other even larger health care financing issues...
...professors' use of "speech" gradually became more extensive, its value decreased proportionally. Like addicts presented with an unlimited supply of heroin professors began to wallow unabashedly in the infinite possibilities of instructional noise. Soon they were trying to fit so much "speech" into one sentence that, well, listen for yourself to an example of the most dreaded of lecture hall horrors--The Harvard Hyperbole...
...easy to wallow in one's own victimization--that's why we've got so many "artists" and "writers." What's harder is saying no to victimization, and going beyond it in your work. Harder, but not impossible. Harder, and not done here...
...cans of Aero Lak hair spray each week. "Our wig designer spends so much time hair spraying," says Larry Gallagher, 35, the show's creator and director, "he has to wear a surgical mask." But that is the only extravagance. Beehive offers no frills, few risks -- just a sweet wallow in the bottomless pool of classic American...
...audience devours Beehive like a three-foot hoagie. They may stand up and sing The Name Game ("Sarah, Sarah, bo barah, bonana fanna fo farah, fee fi mo marah . . . Sarah!"). They wallow in Lesley Gore's perky petulance ("It's my party and I'll cry if I want to") and sway to the Motown philosophizing of the Supremes ("Baby, baby, where did our love go?"). They thrill again to the eloquent plaint of the Shangri-Las ("Remember, walkin' in the sand") and the sly taunts of the Angels ("My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation...