Word: accordingly
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...called Werktdtige - work-active persons. The East Germans have also dropped the use of the term Pro- letariat, because intellectuals and white-collar workers felt left out. Rationelle Arbeit, which means rational work in West Germany, has become East Germany's pet euphemism for work per formed in accord with party goals. In the West German dictionary, aufrusten means t6 rearm. The East German dictionary warns that when the word is used in Bundesdeutsch, or Federal German, it means "to increase the number of troops and their equipment with aggressive intentions...
...impassioned Dominican Savonarola in 1498 (he was hanged first for good measure). In recent history, however, punishments for heresy have grown less brutal, and the charge has only rarely been invoked. Doctrinal disputes are increasingly resolved by debate within a church, or by the dissidents leaving of their own accord. The last time the Episcopal Church resorted to heresy procedure was in 1924, when it was employed to depose a retired and aged bishop...
There had been a whole series of ac tions to stave off a strike. When the last postponement ended June 19, the unions pledged not to strike. But a Johnson-proposed bill, imposing a binding settlement if no voluntary accord was reached, got hung up for a month in a Senate-House conference committee. With the matter still unresolved, the Machinists finally walked...
Ramsey Clark laid down the new rules in response to a 1965 order from President Johnson, who insisted that eavesdropping by Government agents be "fully in accord with the law and with a decent regard for the rights of others." The Justice Department, aware that a bugging case was before the U.S. Supreme Court, delayed issuing the memorandum until the court acted. Last month the court took its stand, declaring a New York State eavesdropping law unconstitutional by a vote of 5 to 4-with Associate Justice Tom Clark writing the majority decision. It was the last major case...
Author Desnoes, 37, was working as a journalist in New York when Castro took power, and went home of his own accord because "I never would be anybody outside my country." He now lives in Havana and is an editor of Cuba's national book-publishing company. The novel seems to give a picture of Castro's Cuba, warts and all: the endless waiting in lines, bureaucratic inefficiency, food shortages, paucity of merchandise in stores, and such trivial but revealing irritations as delays in deliveries of soft drinks because there are no corks for the bottles...