Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regular NROTC juniors and freshmen will embark on their summer cruise on July 18, the Navy Department announced Saturday. An eight-ship convoy, consisting of a battleship, a cruiser, and six destroyers, will carry the midshipmen to Europe, where they will dock at two as yet undisclosed ports...
Fairbank, who was in San Francisco ready to embark, immediately wired Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada) asking for a chance to testify before his Internal Security Committee "to answer libelous ex-Communist accusations...
Fairbank, who was in San Francisco ready to embark, immediately wired Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada) asking for a chance to testify before his Internal Security Committee "to answer libelous ex-Communist accusations...
...early days of the Round Table. Everybody read F.P.A.'s "Conning Tower" in the Tribune; Deems Taylor was the World's bright young music critic; George Kaufman was the influential drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor of the American Legion Weekly, was soon to embark on his New Yorker venture; and Dorothy Parker was living, as usual, on the edge of disaster-she had just lost her drama critic's job at Vanity Fair* (at Showman Florenz Ziegfeld's request because Dottie had roasted Mrs. Ziegfeld, alias Billie Burke...
...same token, Barnhart never defines a word with others more complicated or rare. Adjoin is not "to lie contiguous to," but "be next to"; adventurous is not "prone to embark on hazardous enterprises," but "ready to take risks"; shake is not "to be agitated with irregular vibratory motion," but to "move quickly backwards and forwards, up and down, or from side to side"; remainder is not "residue; residuum; remnant," but "the part left over...