Word: augmentative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graying, sandy hair. He has an easy, likable manner and a quick wit he often turns on himself. His self-deprecation springs from his country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs to burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal. He was an enthusiastic singer...
...sell is soft, but the pitch is eager. William Shain of Macalester College in St. Paul brags about his school's Scottish festival. "You haven't lived till you've heard 150 bagpipes all playing together," he tells the group of high school students. To augment Macalester's appeal, he pulls out a picture of downtown Minneapolis and says, "You remember when Mary Tyler Moore tosses her hat over the city? That's where it goes." Spike Gummere of Lake Forest College, which is in a Chicago suburb, tells students that the city is close...
...machines on the Williams and Yale campuses. The A.A.P. has handed out a set of guidelines drawn up by the House Judiciary Committee. "Brevity and spontaneity" are key standards. Small extracts may be duplicated for each student in a class when a professor comes across printed material that might augment his lectures. "But you can't do it semester after semester," says Risher. "And you can't make up anthologies. You have to get permission." Helpfully, the A.A.P. has a pamphlet on how to do that...
Gone are the heady days of the '60s and early '70s, when the average annual growth rate of 4.5% allowed the Soviets simultaneously to augment their arsenal, invest in new factories and improve living standards. Says Economics Professor Holland Hunter of Haverford College: "A very stern experiment in industrialization has been under way in the Soviet Union during the past half-century, and it has worked successfully. But this era has played itself...
...dust jackets of their elders and ask to be let into the canon. And No. 27, a thick manuscript of essays, literary criticism, reviews and serendipitous miscellanea, currently sits on a groaning desk in his editor's office in midtown Manhattan, awaiting its turn to augment the author's reputation...