Word: cites
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Behan sneers at all his characters. His IRA soldiers fight fiercely for an utterly ridiculous cause. The social workers sing a parody on "Danny Boy" entitled "No One Loves You But Yourself." When the soldier demands to know why he is to die, the caretaker can only cite English atrocities to Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria...
Once words are learned and written down, linguists can prepare a bilingual dictionary and primers and teach the Indians how to read. Then the real rewards begin. The teachers cite cases of illiterate Indian boys and girls, taught by the institute, who are now successful surgeons, scholars and teachers. "When they first learn how paper talks," says an institute linguist, "it is a thrilling experience for the Indians...
...having at least some small effect. In Cuba's mis-planned economy, rationing is still severe if not quite at subsistence level. The distribution system is endless chaos -one week an avalanche of avocados, the next week none. But now Cuban officials freely admit having made serious errors, cite poor organization of state farms and premature efforts to industrialize. They talk endlessly of the peasants' and workers' grievances, always promising to give them more-just as Khrushchev does in Moscow...
...that hovered a mile away. The eruption was over in less than two minutes, but its reverberations would shake more than helicopters. This was the first test of United Aircraft Corp.'s big, new solid-fuel rocket engine, and it was completely successful. Partisans of solid fuel will cite it proudly in claiming for solids a bigger role in the U.S. space effort...
...childhood. As a girl, she supposedly belonged to a Hitlerite youth group. In school in Italy during her late teens, at a time when three of her brothers served in the Wehrmacht, she was heard to defend Nazi Germany. That is about the only fact her critics can cite to support their case. After marrying Paul in 1938, Frederika fled Greece under Nazi bombardment, lived in exile in Egypt and South Africa until...