Word: addendum
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Police admit that the addendum to their permission doesn't always have much effect. In fact, officers have had to silence trucks that were interrupting court proceedings. No one, as yet, has seen a policeman shooing a Councilman's truck away from the Square, and this is natural. If there were required registration for sound trucks, plus laws forbidding them access to such obvious places as hospitals and schools, the problem would be solved. Until then, students will live periodically shut off from nature by the closed windows that fruitlessly try to keep out the raucous strains of That...
...maxims hard going for an embarrassed British Foreign Service. In Washington, the British embassy hastily checked its Chekes safely behind locked doors; in London, Ernest Bevin was "very cross about it," and Marcus Cheke let it be known he was "most angry." As the matter closed, a last-minute addendum was casually spoken by Sir George William Rendel, the British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning. But if you ply him with Scotch, he doesn...
...addendum to the mimeographed wrestling program states: "A fall is decided when either wrestler holds his opponent's shoulders to the mat for a period of two seconds." Butch Jordan's tutees did this five times at the Blockhouse Saturday to vanquish Dartmouth...
...penitentiary . . . (The master of ceremonies tried to soothe the kids who flubbed: "Too bad, Sara, you stayed up there real long.") Troche, scintilla, poliomyelitis, calyx, cirrus, piccalilli, lachrymose, geodesy, insipid . . . ("That's all right, Martin. I always spell 'insipid' with a 'c,' too.") Syllabus, addendum, flaccid, desiccate, accordion, surcingle, maraschino...
...second great truth to which the signs of the times portend is that we are definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization, which regarded religion as an addendum to life, a pious extra, a morale-builder for the individual, but of no social relevance...