Word: tottering
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...clubs run out of liquor and every door on Prospect Street spews forth a jubilant stream of staggering sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Leaning on each other, singing, shouting, a few pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is not at is beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold: one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street...
...though their press studiously ignored the missile firings. As for Western military analysts, they quickly laid to rest a cocky old gag to the effect that the Chinese would launch a missile when a group of Shanghai acrobats leaped from the top of the Great Wall onto a teeter-totter. The strike potential of the CSS-X-4, primitive or not, was clearly a serious matter...
...modesty. On the other hand, fully 2 per cent of Afghan women are now literate. Here and There explains why a higher figure would not be appropriate for Afghan society: "it is no wonder that formal education as such has bypassed the village maiden. From the time she can totter around, her little feet are set to the tune of fetch and carry...
...school, but in well-behaved years the frozen lakes have three feet of snow on them, and so we are skiers, not skaters. I am conscious of resembling, as I skate, a bishop who has drunk too much at a garden party and is trying to appear sober. I totter along for miles, fascinated, accompanied by a dog who skates no better than I do and an assistant dog who loses control of her hindquarters when she tries to turn. We reach a cove where three boys skate in a big, shifting triangle, rattling a hockey puck across...
...presented a somewhat unappealing image. But, consider that practically everyone back then, men too, was dressing in "proletarian garb." It just became fashionable to not wash your clothes, because who cared what we looked like? There was a cause to fight for. Women realized they no longer had to totter around in spike heels and in pants so tight they couldn't breathe--they realized they did not wish to be "desired" by men as sexually attractive beings. And don't forget the hotpants craze, which every woman, fat or thin, squeezed themselves into...