Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ellsworth Young, manager of Phillips Book Store, said yesterday his employees have to keep constantly on watch for shoplifters. He thinks one book store is buying up stolen copies, but said he has no evidence to document this charge...
Twenty of the rabbis, unworldly men who spend their lives among the fine points of Jewish law, complied with the woman's request, though few could read the English-language document they were asked to sign. Next day Israel's Communist newspaper announced proudly that some of Israel's most distinguished religious leaders had begged President Truman to commute the death sentence of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
Perhaps this document of the Age of Tolerance found its ultimate expression in the contribution of Sarah Lawrence College's alert young President Harold Taylor. Said he: "I believe in people, in sheer, unadulterated humanity . . . The most important thing in life is the way it is lived, and there is no such thing as an abstract happiness, an abstract goodness or morality, or an abstract anything, except in terms of the person . . . I believe we must, each of us, make a philosophy out of believing in nothing...
...Queen's speach was handed to her. As she went unhesitatingly through the long dull document, written, as such speeches always are, by her ministers, many of those listening detected a new note of authority in the voice that had recently seemed high-pitched and girlish. The speech itself was a simple Tory proclamation of the Tory intention of preserving peace, saving the economy and denationalizing steel. The triumph was the Queen's, not her speechwriters...
Where he did quote some document, the Senator lifted a short passage from context and then changed its meaning by paraphrasing it. Citing the Governor's membership in a group which supports state conformity to international law, McCarthy paraphrased this to mean surrender to a super world government. The irrelevant issue of Reds in the U.N. was mixed in for good measure. In tying Stevenson to the I.P.R. he used phrases like "hidden files," "money from Moscow," "recommended by Alger Hiss" but refrained from quoting his "documentation." He referred to Stevenson as "Alger, I mean Adlai" etc., etc. The obvious...