Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private banks and insurance companies have been trying to please customers by writing loan agreements and policy forms in high school-level English. In Massachusetts, State Representative Lois Pines last year pushed through a bill requiring insurance companies to limit their policies to the simplest and clearest language. The state of Michigan now has an "understandable-language bill" under consideration. New York Governor Hugh Carey has signed a bill, to go into effect this spring, providing $50 fines for failure to use "nontechnical language" in consumer contracts...
...refrigerant and relieving. This has done away with the head-aches that the sun caused in days before. The Arctic sun.--penetrating, intense--seems not so much to shine as to strike. Even the trickles of water that run down my T-shirt feel good. Meanwhile, the river--the clearest, purest water I have ever seen flowing over rocks--breaks the light into flashes and sends them upward into the eyes...
Darwin wrote of that epic round: "The clearest picture that remains to me is of the youthful hero playing all those last crucial shots, just as if he had been playing an ordinary game. He did not hurry; he did not linger: there was a briskness and decisiveness about every movement, and whatever he may have felt, he did not betray it by as much as the movement of an eyelash. Yet he did not play as one in a dream, as people sometimes do at supreme crises: he was just entirely calm and entirely natural...
...keep up my connections with the world outside Harvard. I returned to my Chicago neighborhood to organize with the people I had left behind and to distill some common meaning from the diverging patterns of our lives. Yet still I could not shake the sense that some of the clearest memories I have of the past four years--being locked in a narrow jail cell with 50 other people after the anti-war demonstrations at the 1972 Republican Convention or walking down Brooklyn streets with a green-eyed woman--have nothing to do with Harvard...
...Paris initiative was the clearest sign yet of President Jimmy Carter's determination to carry out a campaign promise to send such a mission to Hanoi. Carter reiterated that pledge in January at a confidential meeting with seven U.S. Congressmen. On that occasion, Carter mentioned U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young or veteran Envoy Averell Harriman as possible heads of the peace team. But he emphasized that he will direct the course of any negotiations personally from the White House...