Word: wonk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real clubs. Join the work club, join the club for left-overs, and (ever so gently) hurry up about it, so we can show 100% and go back to the party. Resistance is firm, but in many cases gives way. Something in you resists being classified a wonk, but something deeper cries out against exile...
William--Leo, you're a wonk...
...back home here people seemed to operate on an entirely different set of assumptions. Up at school it was always tacitly assumed that everyone should be getting a liberal education, and those who were not doing so were either ignored, or dubbed by some contemptuous term such as "wonk" or "weenie...