Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Fact...
...more magical than that. All of the complications of syntax and tense and the diagramming of sentences and the like, which have confused so many of us for so long, spring not from the origins of the language but from the efforts of scholars to figure out after the fact how it works...
...objective testing of a product, Rosenthal's investigation found the award to be as much an advertising gimmick as a guarantee to consumers. The legislator contends that the main criterion for granting the seal is whether a manufacturer agrees to place his advertising in Good Housekeeping magazine. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration has seized as "contraband" for quality and safety reasons at least two products advertised in the magazine, and is reportedly investigating several others...
Harris has a different story. He maintains that during most of the period when he was reported to be standing around doing practically nothing, he was in fact aft, destroying classified material for which he was personally responsible. Other crew members saw him doing this, Harris told a TIME correspondent, but either they have not been called to testify as yet, or their testimony was completely classified...
...asked the chancellor to agree to all the demands, most were not within his jurisdiction and his assent means little to a state legislature which was already hostile toward radicalism on the Madison campus. By the end of last week, most black leaders had resigned themselves to the fact that their demonstration was only serving to dramatize the power structure of a state school--the preponderant legislative interference in the university...