Word: squirming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admissions officials begin to squirm when the word "quota" turns up in conversation. "The only quota is the quota of common sense," says Cotton. Doermann doesn't think the docket system imposes any quota at all, "but I can see why someone wouldn't believe...
...itch and squirm of sex, How can she foresee...
...train trip from Central Mexico to the U.S. border at Nuevo Laredo. The trip, particularly in the second class compartment, easily beats a coast-to-coast Greyhound for discomfort. Mexican women with three children and a rooster buy one ticket, and then, once on the train, let their charges squirm their way over into the seat that you, God damn it, paid full fare...
...events make Wall Street squirm as much as a public investigation of its affairs. Last week, as the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a wide-ranging inquiry into the fees charged to stock investors, it began to look like a warm-under-the-collar summer for the New York and American Stock Exchanges. For the first time since such rates were devised in 1792, the markets must publicly defend a system of minimum commissions that the SEC contends is capricious and unfair...
Dreyer and Franz occasionally attempt to squirm out of the two-dimensional plane in which Nabokov holds them captive. But most of the time, all three are as flat and glossy as the playing cards suggested by the novel's title. This enables Nabokov to give them the nimble shuffle that characterizes the mercurial plots of all his Action...