Word: dischargee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such "alphanumeric" displays are not entirely new. Since the 1960s, cathode ray tubes (CRTs) similar to those in home TV sets have been used to perform such varied chores as giving stock information in brokerage offices, confirming reservations at distant hotels, and even showing air traffic patterns over crowded airports...
Though puns may be used to political advantage-or disadvantage-punning has traditionally been more the farm of the artist than the playground of the politician. By punning, which probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance...
Johnson might well have merely lived in such a world instead of writing about it. A Wisconsin-born son of middle-class parents, he intended to make the Army his career. But while serving as a staff sergeant in Kansas, he was thrown into the stockade and eventually given an...
Beyond that, there is a practical argument in favor of amnesty. Many deserters, perhaps a majority, are already being quietly discharged, mostly because many military commands are unwilling to go through complicated prosecution procedures. The most celebrated recent example was the case of eight sailors who deserted last October from...
Under the 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act, no industry or city can dump pollutants into navigable waterways unless it gets a "discharge permit" from the Federal Government. In late 1970 this old law became the keystone of President Nixon's program to clean up U.S. waterways. Last summer some...