Word: ez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Novelist Holland's hero helps explain the Magyar weakness. The great Baron Rakóssy and the other lords have just crushed a peasant rebellion and are now squabbling with each other. Rakóssy has his eye on Catharine de Buñez, who is related to the Habsburg emperor, and he gets her; for good measure, he seduces her sister and slays her brother-in-law. He also has his eye on the neighboring castle of Vrath and gets it as well, by trickery rather than force of arms. By this time, not only the peasants...
...performance that may well advance the date of his much-rumored retirement. Widmark typically does nothing to distract attention from his ineptitudes, among them a curious tendency to stumble over words of more than one syllable. He comes on, alas, with a Southern accent, and manages to sayound ez eeyuf heyuz tongue hayud tuhwurned intew a wawatermayelon. Fortunately, most of his scenes are stolen by his horse...
Graduate school admissions and fellowship applications reflect similar differences in outlook. That IBM-atmosphere they were rioting about is reflected in the stark simplicity and, perforated, EZ-to-process, pages of Berkeley's form. As for Harvard's GSAS form, its appearance would enthrall any student of the visual arts: at least five different kinds of type reflect the level of significance of various questions. Xeroxed and informally stapled at the corners, Wellesley's graduate fellowship form reflects the combination of casualness and warmth which characterizes afternoon teas at their best...
...seeds of the present crisis go back to the early 1900s, when a young reform-minded President named José Battle y Ordóñez started the country on a spree of welfare-statism. He and his successors set up workmen's compensation, minimum-wage and old-age-pension plans, organized a sprawl of government industries (insurance, electricity, petroleum refining) to cut consumer costs and-in an effort to guarantee democracy-replaced Uruguay's one-man presidency with a nine-man National Council. As benefits piled on benefits, the Council became less a government than a gigantic...
Champagne & Beer. "Fine, fine," murmured Shelby as Gurney's Lotus-Ford blasted round and round the 3.81mile track, trailed by the lone remaining team Ferrari and a phalanx of Fords. He flashed a signal to the GTs and Cobras: EZ-slow down. On the 137th lap, the last Ferrari's clutch failed. Job done, Gurney's Lotus also pulled into the pits, with a sick engine...