Word: bespeak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Changes inside the magazine have followed the same principles. Innovations adopted one by one since 1938 have included text and picture boxes that lend diversity to the makeup and a variety of headline widths that bespeak distinctions between stories. The longer story headings, along with a more generous use of pictures, made our old headline type seem a bit fragile, so we are making it slightly heavier, although we retain the same type family...
...unfortunate that your intelligence was not sufficiently durable to consign the material on withholding one's telephone tax to a convenient incinerator. The argument of that material may be appropriate for Harvard undergraduates-and, alas, far too many graduate students-but from college teachers, it seems to bespeak a retarded adolescence. There is something pathetically jejune about your encouraging a policy that is doomed to fail and that will cost the Internal Revenue Service-ultimately the taxpayer-"up to $400 per case." Perhaps not every word that comes from the months of babes is to be thought worthy of inclusion...
...people who won last fall didn't do it by talking about the new South," Weltner said, "but because they were expressing dissatisfaction with government institutions. The results of those elections bespeak a sense of frustration over national institutions...