Word: worm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past years, freshmen have spent a lot of their time each spring figuring out what kind of class rank and concentration mix will most please the housing computer, going to interviews at Houses, and desperately trying to worm their way onto masters' choice lists...
Though his letters to Felice point shakily toward marriage, Kafka tells her only of his drawbacks. He claims to be weak and easily fatigued. He raises the suspicion of impotence: "You are a girl and want a man, not a flabby worm on the earth." He writes how he hates his civil service job at Prague's Workers' Accident Insurance Institute...
...rich are never more different from everyone else, as F. Scott Fitzgerald should have gone on to observe, than on the hateful ides of April. Most wage earners sweat over piles of canceled checks and interest statements just to worm their income total on Form 1040 backward by one bracket. But no self-respecting zillionaire would be caught within several lines of his real income before it has been vastly shaved by deductions, exemptions and exclusions...
...When someone is in power, he is bound to make mistakes; then criticism is good but everyone fears it. We are tougher on the outside than inside. If you are in power, people will hate you. As chairman of the School Committee hearing on Frisoli. I felt like a worm when people booed and hissed me as I walked out. What else can you do to someone's ego? To stop thinking about your ego is the key thing. If you can't get over it, you can't do anything else...
FAVORITE DRINK: Hairy Buffalo (real Tequila with a worm, Rheingold Beer, Hoods Milk, and a twist...