Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANTITRUST. To what extent can manufacturers restrict franchise retailers? Chevrolet dealers in Los Angeles sold new cars at bargain rates through dis count houses. By stopping them, argues the Government, General Motors restrained trade and violated the Sherman Act. The trustbusters insist that such franchise agreements hobble merchants across the country...
...Scrabble set (aaa is a hookworm disease of ancient Egypt, and the zzxjoanw is a musical instrument). Unfortunately, he omits acrostics, telestichs, lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section on the word square, the prototype of the crossword puzzle, and tops it off with an impressive sentence square composed entirely of five-letter words...
...doing very well." Katzenbach had good reason to feel elated. Normally, congressional bills, like architects' blueprints, take a madden ingly long time to move from drafting board to concrete reality. Not this bill. When President Johnson signed it Aug. 6, he promised to enforce it with "dis patch," and Katzenbach went at the job with crackling alacrity. Dead-End Counties. Under the law's "automatic trigger" formula, the Gov ernment is empowered to send federal examiners into Alabama, Alaska, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Caro lina and Virginia, plus 26 North Caro lina counties and Arizona...
...says now. "I'm through with that 'ingroup' crap!" Most project officials are convinced that the $1,000 or so invested in each of the students this summer will bring big rewards in the saving of otherwise wasted talent and in the kids' own dis covery of their potentialities. Of the first 50 students at Western Washington, Instructor Richard Cobb says: "Ten are going to fail, one should have been sent home the first week, and seven of them would have made it without us. But for 32, we've been a godsend." Yet most...
...with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...