Word: columned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Responsible for the editorial page, he soon filled it with some of the most literate and penetrating political commentary in the South. His editorials reasoned relentlessly against the racism of Georgia's whites and the demagoguery of its politicians. His own daily column won him last year's Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Last week the columns stopped abruptly as Patterson, fed up with the Constitution's management, resigned...
Jack Anderson wrote in his syndicated column yesterday that a secret intelligence report shows that students at Harvard are planning disruptions for the first two weeks in November similar to those that took place last spring at Columbia...
...origins but appears to come from a Royal Canadian Air Force listing of fuzzy phrases. It was popularized in Washington by Philip Broughton, a U.S. Public Health Service official, who circulated it among civil servants and businessmen. A sort of mini-thesaurus of bafflegab, it consists of a three-column list of 30 overused but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from the three columns. For example...
Beehive Rounds. After that, it was simply a question of waiting. An ambush patrol from the U.S. 25th Infantry Division was the first to make contact. Before dawn one morning, it suddenly found itself looking at a well-ordered, 500-man column coolly marching down Route 13 northeast of Tay Ninh. The ambushers let most of the Communist troops pass by, then called in artillery to blast them...
Dublin's Dr. Raymond G. Cross noted that the incidence of anencephaly and of a comparable abnormality, spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), varied with religion. Records of 700 cases of these abnormalities showed that the rate was 2.8 per 1,000 births among Catholics, 2 per 1,000 among Protestants, and only .7 per 1,000 among Jews...