Word: content
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...esthetic experiment. Not to forget that old master, Ernest Hemingway, who did a lot of reporting in his day, but bemoaned the fact that for a novelist "it blunts the instrument you work with." But however Capote wishes to define it, In Cold Blood drains an event of its content as few events have ever been emptied before...
...more than three decades; Oriental lotus seeds, after about 1,000 years. Such long survival, despite heat, cold or even radiation, is managed by the seed when it enters anabiosis -a state of suspended animation in which its metabolism stops, its skin hardens and thickens, and its water content falls to about 10% of normal...
Newspapers were once content to dig up their own local news and run some wire-service copy on news of the rest of the world. Then they gradually began to import other material: columns, features, crossword puzzles, even editorials from various syndicates. Today they can add luster to their pages with "supplemental" news sent over leased wires by a handful of big metropolitan dailies. By paying anywhere from $50 to $850 a week, depending on their size and location, the papers, in effect, rent a Washington bureau and a string of foreign correspondents that they could not possibly afford...
...once well done is done forever." He could scarcely have envisioned his responsibility, at least in part, for the fact that thousands of dhoti-clad Indians lay down across roads and railroads, that hundreds of U.S. citizens, white and black, would be flung into Alabama jails. He was content to enunciate a principle rather than pursue a practice-he never did go back to the uncomfortable jail cell...
...Most Cliffies are content with the present times and system for checking out reserve books, but would like to return them later than...