Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officials of the language departments yesterday condemned language placement tests for their failure to reflect the content of University courses...
...rest assured that the recent cover story on Physiologist Ancel ("Cholesterol") Keys was widely read. For the past week, my companions at the dinner table have discussed the cholesterol content of the current meal. Whether or not the salad oil is monounsaturated, my capacity for listening to such discussion has already become supersaturated...
...leader: "Why should we pay taxes when we can always get more money from the Americans?" To rally resistance, the prospective taxpayers assiduously spread stories among the peasants that the government was planning to tax their cows and even their wives' pigtails. Thus both landowners and peasants seemed content with Koirala's deposition...
...were bone-weary, and grateful that things had not turned out worse. Expectation was that tenacious Premier Gaston Eyskens would bull his troublesome Loi Unique through Parliament, then quickly call for a snap election. Although Socialists allowed privately that they had no hope of winning the election, they were content with the indirect assurances given by Social Christian (Catholic) Boss Théo Lefevre that Premier Eyskens would not be allowed to succeed himself. "We are casting about for new faces," said Lefevre. Hope was that the next government would conveniently forget to implement the Loi Unique, thus permit Socialists...
...forming a society to foster the return of form and content to poetry ("Put the Sense back in Sensitivity" will be our slogan), and I shall nominate Arthur Freeman to charter membership. "Cambridge Seasonal" is an urbane, amusing, richly textured, and formal satire on Cambridge. The characters are old Cambridge ladies "in black woolens," young Cambridge lovers "who link, unlink, attach, detach," professors "with owlish eyes, benign white features, glossy skin, and crystal-clear clock-work within," a townie "with raw brown eyes, red hands, warts, weatherbeaten levis, and a real beery leer," and even a Radcliffe girl ("Something from...