Word: cetera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next time she calls, somebody tells her he has gone to Jamaica. But he'll be sorry, of course. And he'll be glad, when his big star walks out, that the little nobody from Ordway, Vt. is there to walk into the big part-et cetera...
...Tillich," he said to me. "Tillich. That's the stuff you want to read. Sophisticated. Twentieth-century. The cutting edge of knowledge. All the insights of White-head, Freud, Jung, Buber, Langer, Kierkegaard, Satre, et cetera. And more," he said looking me straight...
...through this under Hitler." The order came from the State Department, just before Senator Joe McCarthy's two young investigators, Cohn and Schine, took off for a quick look at U.S. library shelves all over the Continent. Removed were works by Reds, fellow travelers, controversial figures, "et cetera." Some of the blacklisted authors are Communists like Howard Fast, who writes propaganda novels; others are Communists whose works are not party propaganda, e.g., Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. Some were by notably non-Communist authors whose works or opinions had apparently annoyed somebody (in a similar shelf cleanup...
...Formosa and U.N. recognition of Red China. Now Nam simply proposed that a high-level political conference be held, within three months of signing the armistice, "by representatives appointed respectively to settle . . . the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, a peaceful settlement of the Korean question, et cetera...
Chief U.N. Negotiator Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy took a hard look at the text of Nam's proposal. He has learned to be as skeptical of Nam plausible as of Nam bellicose. In brevity and tone the Nam proposal was businesslike, but the little phrase "et cetera" could hide a mess of Communist chicanery. Admiral Joy decided that he would buy Nam's 79-word proposal-if his interpretation of it was correct. Was he right in thinking that the appointed "representatives" would include the Republic of South Korea? (Yes, said Nam.) Would the "foreign forces...