Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question. Immediately after last week's announcement, party leaders in McCarthy's and Hubert Humphrey's home state declared themselves foursquare behind Lyndon Johnson. McCarthy himself is not exactly sure of what he is trying to accomplish-except to restore intelligent discussion to the dissenters' camp, to give them a voice and a vote...
...Soviet Union has announced the award of the Order of Lenin to Judge Lev N. Smirnov for his "services in strengthening socialist legality." Smirnov is the judge who last year convicted and sentenced Authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel to seven and five years respectively in a labor camp for disseminating "slanderous material besmirching the Soviet state and social system...
...inflexible faith. In his last message to Maria, written at Christmas time, 1944, he said: "What is happiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on that which happens inside a person." Four months later he was hanged at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria...
...them after the contractors found they lacked the stamina for an eight-hour day. A month before the Jhelum River was to be diverted, war broke out between India and Pakistan. Though the battle line came within 50 miles of the site, only nightwork was stopped, since the camp had to be blacked out. The contractors were racing to complete the project ahead of schedule and collect a $6,000,000 bonus, which the Atkinson consortium counted on when it set its price-$20 million under the next lowest...
PHONY, kitch and camp are examples of a useful phenomenon: every so often a word breezes into common usage meaning many things and weaving together previously unrelated objects into a new category. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov offers a new word, poshlost (pronounced push-lost). In Russian it means vulgarity or triteness, but in an interview with Author Herbert Gold in the current Paris Review, Nabokov so expands the definition that it makes one wonder how the English language ever got along without...