Word: comma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points the communiqués of one Glassboro dean. "A detailed analysis," he worries out loud, "might well cause irreversible brain damage." But he risks it. One writer's offenses against God and good English, pretty much the same thing to Mitch, are carefully totted up: seven "comma faults," three "failures" of subject-verb agreement, two unpardonable cases of "purple fustian." The villain is hoist by his own "demonstrable inanities." To quote is to destroy-so goes Mitch's modus operandi...
...Golan Heights. The U.S. maneuvered for a Geneva peace conference, but the process degenerated into procedural nitpicking, much of it on the key issue of who would represent the Palestinians. Sadat believed that if everyone continued quibbling over what he called "a word here, a comma there," he would not get to Geneva for months; peace might be delayed for years. High-level diplomats think Sadat also had another fear; at Geneva, his moderate position might be outvoted by the Russians, who hate him, and by hard-lining Syrians and Palestinians...
...arranged with Jordan to cooperate in the immunization of 5,000 Muslims living in Israel or occupied territories who will be making the pilgrimage.) Arab governments are so concerned that this week they will hold a 20-nation meeting in Cairo to decide on the best protective measures. The comma-shaped bacterium (Vibrio cholerae) responsible for cholera finds its natural breeding ground in the human bowel, and is excreted in the feces. The disease can be contracted only by drinking-or bathing and washing in-water containing human fecal matter, from fruits or vegetables contaminated by such water, or from...
...Harvard Law School taught them the importance of a misplaced comma and that knowledge is very important to their clients," Francis D. Fisher, director of the office of career services and off-campus learning, said yesterday to explain the group's high earnings...
...want to speak particularly of your theory of clean manuscripts, and spelling as correct as a collegiate stenographer, and every nasty little comma in its place. I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down to a matteg of memory. They are more to be spoken than to be read. I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener...