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...mouth. He speaks in slang, spiced with psychological and sociological jargon. (Someone is "scared as shatters;" de facto segregation is the "functional equivalent" of legal segregation.) His Southern drawl, clipped short after 12 years in the North, can be turned on and off at will, but generally a distinct trace of it clings to his words...
...regular alphabet. Strictly a teaching tool, it aims to overcome the disparity between the sounds that English-speaking tots know in their heads and the symbols they see on the page. In essence, the child confronts a decoding problem. Unhappily, the code is crazy. The 40-odd phonemes (distinct sound units) of English are spelled in 2,000 different ways, and the letters vary bafflingly in their capital, lower case, printed and handwritten forms...
...Polite. The civil rights fight is a perfect case in point. In it, Mansfield must contend with three distinct groups -a pro-rights alliance of Northern Democrats and liberal Republicans; a segregationist bloc of Deep South Democrats, plus such G.O.P. right-wingers as Texas' John Tower and Arizona's Barry Goldwater; and the fence riders, mostly middle-of-the-road Republicans who approve generally of civil rights but would like some amendments to the bill that passed the House by a 290-130 vote last month...
...that apparently did not bother Bobby, who was already considering yet another career. There was a "distinct possibility" he might some day run for office, he said. If he did, he certainly could count on home-town support. Last week Baker was named a Pickens County delegate to the South Carolina Democratic Convention later this month. Said Baker: "People that know you and respect you and like you, even if you had done something wrong, will still be for you. They know me in Pickens...
...appendage, attached in the manner of a subscription renewal card. On the card was a black and white picture that showed a bust of Thomas Alva Edison surround ed by some half-dozen of his inventions. What made most readers stop and look twice was the picture's distinct illusion of depth...