Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Travolta--is he just another Sean Cassidy or is he something bigger? Put aside the fact that every teeny-bopper in America is in love with him, and try to ignore the six or seven Travolta magazines decorating your local newsstands and ask does the guy have any acting talents at all, or does he just have a good pair of greasy hips...
...quietly urging the chiefs to hold down wage demands, the White House has publicly and repeatedly insisted that they settle for no more than 5.5% a year-the same raise that Carter has said he will approve later this summer for 1,350,000 civil service workers. In fact, postal workers already earn an average wage of $15,423 a year, nearly 50% more than the national average for private nonfarm workers...
Both the solemnity of style and the curious lacunae are explained by the fact that the manual is published by the U.S. Army, which this month is dispatching copies to its 1,433 chaplains. Many sects were included because military commanders and chaplains had already asked headquarters for guidance about them...
...trick is how to walk on water without, as V.N. warned, "descending upright among staring fish." Great novelists are born with the knack. Good journalists must master it. Jane Howard is a good journalist. In fact, she is one of the best of those soft-stepping Austenian observers who seem to glide easily over a situation or a subject without leaving a distorting wake. "My way," she writes, "is to use my intuition as a compass, go where I feel welcome, stay as long as I can manage to, meet whoever is around, help them do what they are doing...
...nervous tic. He took out his little pad and brush pen and began to make notes. He asked for names of officials; he wanted more names; he wanted us to make a full report to him, leaving out no names. In a flat manner, as if restating a fact to himself, he said that he had told the army to share its grain with the people. Then he thanked us; told me that I was a better investigator than "any of the investigators I have sent on my own." And I was ushered...