I think that this quote is showing how it’s easier for people now to do things that are good or how it’s explaining that we’re not really doing things were supposed to as the “said buying a book to buying a gun or finding vegetables to finding a gun
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It should be, “Lexie Grey complained that all the men forgot THEIR table manners at the fancy dinner.
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A loaded word is a word that not only informs but also caries some emotion with it, such as condemning, exciting, praising.
In the statement above the loaded word is "crushing" - it makes a qualitative statement about the defeat: it was a very definite defeat.