Word: belongs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eskimos, the Aleuts, the Tlingits and the Athabaskans incorporate rams' heads into their basket designs and polar bears into their pipes. When these people grace a carved ivory harpoon rest with two otters, it's not for the sake of design, but for their religion, that the two belong together...
Jerry W. Friedheim. Friedheim's connection with the Watergate investigation is admittedly a bit tenuous, so in one sense he doesn't belong here at all. But in another sense he belongs with the men indicted for trying to cover up the plumbers' unit's subversive activities, because as press secretary to the Pentagon, Friedheim tried to cover up the continuing bombing of Cambodia. When American bombers destroyed the Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi in December 1972, Friedheim acknowledged that there might have been minor incidental damage to "the hospital the enemy calls Bach Mai." If conspiring to cover...
...that happens, much of the credit will belong to Sadat. He has unmistakably indicated that he wants a peace settlement, but he has also served notice that Egypt will not return to the Geneva talks without Syria. As one source close to the Egyptian President put it, "Sadat is trying to commit the U.S. not with threats and pressure, but by accepting fully American promises. That puts a heavy responsibility on the American government...
...Science and Mathematics Analyst Martin Gardner (Relativity for the Million, Ambidextrous Universe), announcements of psychic phenomena belong not to the march of science but to the pageant of publicity. "Uri Geller, The Secret Life of Plants, telepathy, ESP, the incomplete conclusions of Koestler ?all seem part of a new uncritical enthusiasm for pseudo science," says Gardner. "The claims are immense, the proof nonexistent. The researchers, almost without exception, are emotionally committed to finding phenomena. And few are aware of the controls necessary in a field in which deception, conscious or unconscious, is all too familiar...
...that there is no simple, numerical definition of the term. Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, offers a qualitative description: "An extended, substantial and widespread decline in aggregate economic activity, but one less severe than earlier 'depressions.' " The job of determining just which downturns belong in that category has fallen to the National Bureau of Economic Research, whose word on the subject is practically law in the profession...