Word: coversation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond next year's mission lies the $5.1 billion U.S. space shuttle-a recoverable crossbreed of spacecraft and airplane designed to ferry men, equipment and satellites back and forth between earth and orbit. One of the few signs of future activity at Canaveral is the line of surveyor stakes...
Shenker's fascination with words also leads him to delve into the technical aspects of language, and he includes pieces on linguistics and lexicography, linguists and lexicographers. He covers everything from the staid Oxford English Dictionary--where, with true British resistance to modernity, no researcher is allowed near a typewriter...
That fund covers all emergency expenses in the Athletic Department, Watson said last week. "It's not intended solely to finance club activities."
The press rarely covers this kind of hero, almost as rarely as it would cover the suffering of Solzhenitsyn if he happened to be a Vietnamese pamphleteer or a Chilean folksinger instead of an anti-communist Nobel Prize winner. Real heroes rarely get publicity or official recognition; their anonymity is...
MISUSE OF POWER. Here the case against Nixon takes on specificity. Among the charges: 1) establishing within the White House an irregular personal secret police (the plumbers) that engaged in such criminal acts as burglary, illegal wiretaps, espionage and perjury; 2) personal approval of a plan (later vetoed by J...