Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plainly, with Shriver's departure the first, handcrafted era of the Peace Corps is ended. Under his guidance, says Wiggins, "we have transited from a feather in the cap of America to a large-scale operation of sufficient human resources to be of consequence in the changing nations." Now...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. In the dock of self-accusation, a man charges that his life has become an obscenity. John Osborne's anti-hero-a defeated solicitor in his middle years-has lost his way but not his wittily vituperative voice, and Nicol Williamson, 28, brings this grieving, raging character...
Hatfield's announcement of candida cy last week was in character. After his publicity men had put out the long-expected word via press release and recorded radio and TV spots, Hatfield drove to the farm community of Silverton (pop. 3,967), where 16 years earlier he had made...
Each successive stage of decomposition, Payne found, was characterized by the arrival and departure of particular groups of insects. With this information, he says, even if a body's decomposition were so advanced that a pathologist could not determine the time of death, the character of its insect population would be a dead giveaway to an experienced entomologist...
Owing to some genetic magic, the Adamses never produced black sheep, though there were times when the family anxiously expected Charles Francis Jr. to baa. Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the...