Word: facet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bluff & Tough. Gardner was referring to every facet of American life, from the turbulent cities through the quarrelsome Congress to the Viet Nam war, which sparks most of the venom and hostility in the American air. Gardner is not the only one who is bothered. New York's Senator Jacob Javits called on President Johnson to deliver an "extraordinary State of the Union message" to resolve American doubts and dissent over the war. But the President seems to prefer a different tactic. He is deploying his most influential aides in a verbal counterattack...
...buoy on an America's Cup racecourse. Taking such esoteric language uttered by experts in their field-whether it be computers (see U.S. BUSINESS) or toxicology (see MEDICINE) or catechetics (see RELIGION) or sailing-and turning it into a story that a non-expert can understand is a facet of our job that we consider of major importance. Bridging that language gap between specialist and reader often, if not always, can be done best by people who are not necessarily experts in the field under discussion...
...candid camera also documented another strange facet of British urban life. Housewives were shown letting strange men into their homes who were wearing only milk-bottle tops as badges. Phony TV repairmen were admitted by women who did not even have sets. Interviewed later, the same women all insisted that they were very cautious about strangers-until they saw themselves on telltale film...
...facet of Lindbergh's life often overlooked is his role in rocketry. In 1929, attracted by skeptical reports of the pioneering rocket research of Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark University, Lindbergh visited Goddard at his Worcester home because, he said later, "I was trying to look far into the future of flight, and this took me into space. I realized the limitations of the propeller, and this led me into the field of rockets and jet propulsion, which I decided to investigate...
...movie bit"-frequently Walt Disney's well-worn Story of Menstruation. Only fairly general physiology is taught even in more ambitious programs-known to professionals as "plumbing courses." By modern standards, such courses are hardly considered sex education at all. The new insistence is on dealing with every facet of sex: biological, emotional, sociological...