Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abuse and careless use of language have been going on for a long time; witness the stern biblical warnings such as the one in Matthew 12: 36: "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Yet the risks of biased words to the unwary must be greater today, in an epoch of propagandizing amplified by mass communications. "Never," Aldous Huxley said, "have misused words-those hideously efficient tools of all the tyrants, warmongers, persecutors and heresy hunters-been so widely and disastrously influential." In the two decades since that warning...
...deaths, she remarked, "How nice." Furthermore, she had already had two accidents in recent years in which three more had been hurt. Her license had not been lifted because she had not been convicted of anything in the first two cases; this time she is charged only with "careless driving resulting in death" (maximum punishment: $500 fine) because there is no evidence that she knew what she was doing. The real problem, say authorities, is that Florida's licensing laws are not tough enough on elderly drivers, some of whom have lost control. Last week Roland Slatzer...
...instructor must deliver a copy of his test to Holyoke Center a week before the exam date. Neatness counts: The copy must be clearly typed, in black, on 8 1/2 X 11" white, non-shiny, opaque paper. To guard against corruptible messengers and careless postal clerks. Faculty regulations require professors to deliver exams in person or by registered mail...
...just got careless and let it slip away," Coach Carole Kleinfelder said of the part of the Ivy Crown that now belongs to the Quakers...
...ancient Indian folklore and mystery. Nye brings the bird naturally into her sky. She traces the connotations of each image down through the rest of the poem, so that the forward motion is the ideas rolling ahead on their own, not a poet who hovers in the background with careless language trying to move ideas around...