Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Call to Surrender. Lisbon severed diplomatic relations with Jakarta following last week's invasion. It also called upon the United Nations to "protect the territorial integrity" of East Timor. From Jakarta, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik coolly dismissed the Portuguese protest, insisting that Indonesian troops had landed in Dili "at the request of the people of East Timor...
...Adam Neiman, a Harvard student on leave this year to work as Carter's campus organizer for Massachusetts, characterized Carter support at Harvard as "very good." However, he added he did not think Carter would win in Massachusetts. "I don't think anyone can win more than 30 per cent of the vote," Neiman said...
...That's a lot of tall buildings and speeding trains. He used to write a complete comic book a day. "In fact," he says proudly, "somebody figured out for me once, that I have written more stories that have been published than anyone who has ever lived, since Adam and Eve." He sighs. "That's why I'm tired...
...accepted, and in 1956 found her colossus in the young British poet Ted Hughes. Even in her first ecstasies, there are forecasts of trouble: "I have fallen terribly in love, which can only lead to great hurt. I met the strongest man in the world, a large, hulking, healthy Adam with a voice like the thunder...
...evening Theodore Bernstein, consulting editor of the New York Times and for years its linguistic policeman, was trying to think of the term for a sentence or word that reads the same both backward and forward, as in "Madam, I'm Adam." It came to him the next morning (palindrome), and with it the inspiration for this book-a reverse dictionary that alphabetically lists an array of meanings and then retrieves the word that has momentarily disappeared into the outer fog banks of the brain...