Word: dint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members, a demonstration or parade would be embarrassing; with little overt support, teach-ins would be poorly attended. So instead the Harvard Communists work as members of other organizations. They are inevitably among the hardest working, most vociferous members of non-Communist organizations, and often win respect simply by dint of compulsive industry. They also serve a major communicative function: by meeting together with other Boston Communists and reading reports to each other, they can keep abreast of the events in each area of the radical movement. Then when they report back to the non-Communist organization with which they...
...Advocate." Less gregarious than his younger brother, Bobby often broods in solitude at his Senate desk, sometimes leaves without trading the customary pleasantries. The more genial Teddy is generally well accepted and is working his way into the Senate "Establishment" by dint of such seemingly inconsequential actions as lingering in Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland's office one morning a few years ago to sip bourbon with him. "Teddy's more casual," says Fred Holborn, a White House aide under J.F.K. "Ask Teddy to put more bite into a speech, and he'll refuse, saying...
...slightly stained with lipstick). Sister, browsing in the Teen Scene department, was staring with fascination at a pair of earrings she might just forget to pay for, if no one was going to be looking too hard. Sonny was in school, doing pretty well on a math test by dint of some judicious copying from a friend's paper. And Dad was busy at the office, adding a few fictitious lunches to his expense account and wondering about the feasibility of his company's renting another suite in Miami to be written off as a business expense...
...dint of everlasting perseverance, study, and self-development he went from that humble beginning to all-America fame in three years. After completing graduate work in Civil Aeronautics, Portfolio joined the coaching staff and introduced the forward pass, which he affectionately called "the bomb...
Weighed down by the world's highest taxes, labor and construction costs, the U.S. merchant fleet survives only by dint of vast Government subsidies...