Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audacity to put between quotation marks. " 'Now if I were Norman Mailer,' said the author of Portnoy's Complaint, 'I'd be up in the ring after the first bout, kicking away at the boxers in golf shoes.' " Whatever tin-eared fantast fed you that one should at least have told you to include in your story the fact that in Thailand the boxers fight principally with theii feet. As it stands, the quotation is not only predictably without any relation to fact, but somewhat lacking in point...
...divert money and materials into consumer industries, away from the military men and what he called "the metal eaters"?the managers of heavy industry. But while Khrushchev tried, often unsuccessfully, to keep the military men on relatively short rations, Brezhnev may feel obliged to keep them well fed in exchange for their recent backing. That would further distort the economy, already heavily oriented toward military needs, and the very quality of Russian life as well. As TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter cabled from Moscow: "Guns have been built at the expense not only of butter but also of soap, toilet...
Horty, 41, now directs one of the most ambitious efforts yet undertaken to computerize the nation's laws. During the past three years, the company that Horty organized-Aspen Systems Corp. of Pittsburgh-has fed into its memory banks the statutes of all 50 states, the U.S. Code and 14 volumes of U.S. Supreme Court decisions...
Burning with zeal and idealism, half a hundred young newsmen and anti-Establishment hangers-on gathered in Chicago last week at a national seminar for "fed-up journalists of the straight media." They came to complain about things like racial discrimination, subpoenas and the lack of freedom for reporters to tell it like it is. But first, certain restrictive rules were laid down for reporters covering the meeting: they must agree not to quote anyone at all by name without permission, and they must submit copies of all the stories they filed for comparison with what was published...
...York last year state and fed eral engineers announced plans to put a six-lane highway along the Hudson River between Tarrytown and Crotonville. David Sive and Alfred S. Forsyth, New York environmental lawyers, duly went to work for a coalition including the Sierra Club and the Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley. In a federal district court, Sive argued that drawings prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers depicted a large dike, extending 1,000 feet into the river, and a causeway. He then cited an 1899 federal law that forbids building dikes and causeways "over or in" navigable...