Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in the same issue as your delightfully acerbic Essay on "neologisms, coinages and other abuses" of the English language, men like Ibsen and Nietzsche were "astrodomed," Frank Wedekind "psychographed" his subject. Von Karajan makes Mahler "more immense" (less immense? a bit more immense?). Midnight Express is "hyped-up" (hyped-down? hyped-over...
With a hoard of cash, American Express aims at McGraw-Hill...
...great takeover race of the past few years, American Express has been left at the starting gate. The financial and travel conglomerate has made offers for Philadelphia Life Insurance Co., Walt Disney Productions and Book-of-the-Month Club, only to be turned down or outbid. It has also sounded out others but received a polite no. Amexco's young, aggressive management is not about to give up. Faced with heating competition for its dominance of credit cards and traveler's checks, the company is looking for profitable new uses for its money. That hoard is so huge...
Sanford J. Rosen, San Francisco lawyer for the victims, termed the out-of-court settlement "a great victory." On the other side, Sylvester Del Corso, adjutant general of the Guard in 1970, insisted: "There is no apology. We expressed sorrow and regret just as you would express condolences to the family of someone who died." But why settle now? If the trial had continued, predicted Ohio Attorney General William J. Brown, "we could lose this case." Said Arthur Krause, whose daughter Allison was killed: "I'm tired. I can't sit in a courtroom and look at those...
Sixty-one per cent of students polled reserved judgement on the recently-formed student assembly when asked to comment on its performance. Upperclassmen are slightly more likely to express an opinion on the body's performance...