Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special feature this week is six pages of color photographs, the first ever assembled in print, of the many houses of the Kennedy family. It took some doing. Photographers had to spread out from Santa Monica, Calif, (the Peter Lawfords), to Cap d'Antibes, France (the Joseph Kennedy Srs.). In a family renowned for its collective responses, the reception among the brothers and sisters ranged from happy collaboration in family poses, to complete reticence. In some cases, the motive was privacy; in others, a sensitivity to appearing too wealthy. There was a reluctance to talk number of rooms...
...response to TIME'S Aug. 18 issue pinning a "newest oddity" or "oddest newity dunce cap on me for my long protest of Oilman Lawrence O'Connor's nomination to the Federal Power Commission and other aberrations from the senatorial norm, two corrections...
More blight than bright, the new acronyms are a kind of regression. They do not really enrich the language because they are words already. Still, they cap a fine old tradition that probably began with the Romans' SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee...
...foot, precast concrete pillars will be placed to take the weight. In 29 months, if all goes well, the temple with its giant figures and the rock enclosing its inner rooms will rise 203 ft., safely above the water. It will then be set into a rounded, natural-looking cap of artificial rock. The last step will be to construct in front of the temple a shelving piece of ground resembling the shore of the Nile, now left far below. When all is done, the great figures of Ramses II will stare out over the Aswan lake, as they stared...
...Whom the Bell Tolls, El Sordo on the hilltop is waiting to squeeze the trigger on an enemy, but it is the reader who sights along the rifle: "Look. With a red face and blond hair and blue eyes. With no cap and his moustache is yellow. With blue eyes. With pale blue eyes. With pale blue eyes with something wrong with them. With pale blue eyes that don't focus. Close enough. Too close. Yes, Comrade Voyager. Take it, Comrade Voyager...