Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...environment in sections throughout the magazine. In 1965, for example, the Oct. 1 Science cover story examined the uses and misuses of the world's water supply. Our July 28, 1967 Nation cover reported Daniel P. Moynihan's fight against urban blight. The May 10, 1968, Essay, "The Age of Effluence," brought requests for 1,000 reprints. Thus it became clearer and clearer that both the ravages of man's world as well as his attempts to salvage it were of such concern to everyone that a special section in TIME was called...
...TIME ESSAY THE COMMISSION HISTORY is rich in evidence that men would rather talk than act, and wise governments have furnished them with institutions to accommodate this inclination. The ancient Athenians devised the ecclesia, or popular assembly, which allowed all citizens to speak their thoughts without necessarily getting any action on them. The Senate of Imperial Rome was another forum where words loomed larger than deeds. In the U.S. of today, government has created a worthy successor to those institutions: the commission. In recent years, innumerable national issues have been handed over to commissions of eminent citizens on the assumption...
...better look. On the surface of the damp earth, he saw traces of earthworms. He uttered a low cry: 'They are alive! Alive! This earth is not to be abandoned.'" The farmers' faith is described in one of 500 war vignettes recently submitted in an essay contest on nationalism sponsored by the Saigon daily Tieng Not Dan Toe (Voice of the People). The competition was the idea of the paper's 29-year-old publisher, Ly Quy Chung, a member of the National Assembly's lower house and a leading supporter of a neutralist "third...
...Essays. With the financial help of political friends, including General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, Publisher Chung awarded modest cash prizes to runners-up and ran the top 75 essays in his paper. Neither his pals nor his prose won him much favor with the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Two weeks ago, on a charge of "promoting neutralism," Thieu's censors closed down the Voice of the People indefinitely. That action in itself is an eloquent essay on the war in Viet...
...complete satisfactory/no credit plan. In recognition of what the subsequent faculty legislation called the "considerable risks involved for the student who wants to enter graduate or professional school, were grades to be eliminated entirely at this time," the Report recommended the compilation of "dossiers" of student papers and essay exams...