Word: ately
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apartheid (pronounced apart-ate) is an Afrikaans word meaning separation. It is a political dogma based on the fear-not entirely unjustified-that South Africa's 12 million blacks will overwhelm its 3.4 million whites, and it is enforced only through massive and brutal police powers. But to Verwoerd, it is not simply a tool to keep the black man in his place. He sees it as a creative policy intended to allow the Bantu to develop as a true African instead of becoming an imitation white man. "Separation does not envision oppression," he proclaims...
...housewife is beginning to stew about food prices. "We ate better four years ago, when my husband was still a student," says Mrs. Roberta Pearson, wife of a junior bank executive in Chicago. "These prices are robbery. The Government seems more interested in the price of rice in Saigon than in food costs in New York," says Manhattan-dwelling Mrs. Joan Lester. Says Boston's Mrs. Irene Krutt: "If I were younger, I'd grab a placard and picket...
Died. Charley Dressen, 67, manager of the Detroit Tigers since 1963, a sawed-off (5 ft. 6 in.) onetime third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, who ate a lot of chile con carne and acted that way, squaring off nose to belt with 6-ft. umpires and peppering his men with insults ("All ballplayers is dumb, but outfielders is the dumbest"), an approach which took him in and out of nine teams as a coach or manager, and somehow gave him two years of glory when he led the Brooklyn Dodgers to pennants in 1952 and 1953; of a heart...
According to plans now favored by the MBTA, the Harvard extension would pass a tunnel under Radcliffe Yard and near a Loeb Drama Center. University officials have expressed concern over the ate, and have asked that the extension designed to eliminate any noise and vibration effects that the new tunnel might have on Harvard and Radcliffe buildings...
...eaten at 11 a.m. While discussing diets, the rabbi rejects the notion that the Jewish and Moslem prohibition against pork started because of fear of food poisoning. The pig was taboo from earliest times because it was worshiped by primitive peoples who also sacrificed it to their idols and ate it in sacred meals. This made Jews, in their passion for monotheism, reject...