Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stormy, five-hour session, the Cabinet voted to warn the U.S. to keep its commitments to Israel, notably the promise to veto any attempts by the Arab states to alter United Nations Resolution 242, which in 1967 implicitly acknowledged Israel's right to exist...
Comrade Grishin should pay special heed to the likes of Alfred Mayes, 18, an affable light-middleweight boxer from St Louis. Mayes likes to have his outsize portable tape player blaring disco music when he skips rope, and he did not alter that regimen for last week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...
Collins did not always want to dance. As a child he worked as an alter boy in his church and set his sights on the priesthood. But he says his sister encouraged him to take tap lesson. He loved it and began to make up his own pieces to the blare of a jukebox in a neighborhood pool room. He was winning amateurs' contests in his mid-teens and touring before he was 20, appearing in nightclubs throughout the U.S., Canda, and Europe...
Byrd told Brezhnev that some Senators were also afraid that the SALT protocol might be regarded as a precedent for future negotiations and that the agreement on non-circumvention might be used to alter existing relations with...
Certainly a film maker is entitled to alter a novel's text, but here both the choices and the motives are somewhat spurious. By grafting stylistic affectations onto an otherwise naturalistic movie, Kaufman blunts the raw power that, is The Wanderers' greatest asset. Like his characters, he would have fared far bet ter if he had stopped showing off and practiced a little self-control...