Word: barked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, a great day for oratory. Johnson, looking somewhat paunchy and preternaturally proud, said of his library, crammed with 31 million documents of his career: "It's all there-the history of our time, with the bark off." Nixon inadvertently got off the funniest line of the day: "As President Johnson was throwing me-er-showing me through the library . . ." Afterward, the Rev. George Davis of Washington, standing just in front of Vice President Agnew, offered a Spironian benediction rejoicing, among other things, that the University of Texas is "not yet frozen in the glacier of pseudo intellectualism...
Incredulous. One last, unlikely resort remains. Suppose, it was suggested to a John Lindsay aide, that the mayor were to come striding out of his office and bark: "I don't care how you do it, I want the harassment of the Soviet diplomats in this city stopped!" Well, said the Lindsay man, the first call would go to the police commissioner. The second would go from the commissioner to his legal counsel. The counsel would quickly burrow into lawbooks to see if there might not be some handy old statutes tucked away. Meanwhile the commissioner would send...
...subscribe to papal infallibility at Vatican I, he felt constrained to leave the church and found the "Old" Catholics. When Hans Kung [April 5] finds it impossible to subscribe to any infallibility other than God's, he feels constrained to stay on and help bail out the sinking bark of Peter. Since infallibility is an irreformable position of the Catholic Church, many will wonder why Hans Kung does not leave the church and found the "New" Catholics. PAUL F. PALMER, S.J. New York City...
...road, there was a checkpoint bunker that could hold two or three people. Farther apart, there were lots of depots slightly off the main trail. They were numbered-we saw Nos. 16 through 19 on our walk-and were indicated on the path by crosses carved into the bark of a tree and painted...
...answer was unpredictable: "I liked the poet . . . the delicate Parisian one, Gérard de Nerval. He walked his lobster on a leash. People in the street said: 'What's your lobster doing out here on a leash?' Nerval said: 'He doesn't bark and he knows the secrets of the deep.'" Bobby's special affinity, however, was for the Greek poets and dramatists, particularly Aeschylus, the father of tragedy...