Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most violent offerings-cartoons-are not hurt. Youngsters predisposed to aggressive behavior by other factors, however, may be influenced to act out their aggressions after watching television. But the effect of TV is probably slight compared with such elements as parental attitudes or the child's firsthand experience with violence in adult society...
...this distinction may be discriminatory. An uneducated farm boy from Mississippi probably would not have had the knowledge to evade the draft; any college boy could pick it up in an hour. Or, on the other hand, perhaps the deserter did not oppose the war until he saw it firsthand. Should he therefore be penalized? If amnesty is granted, it should in fairness be given to both draft evaders and deserters...
...protests will probably prove fruitless. The exclusion was a victory for Kao Liang, 47, the smiling public relations chief of Peking's delegation, who was once a Hsinhua correspondent himself. Kao has firsthand knowledge of how it feels to have credentials lifted. Long rumored to be more of an intelligence operative than a reporter (TIME, Nov. 22), Kao lost his accreditation to India in 1960 because of "biased reporting." Not surprisingly, he scooped Western correspondents by a full 48 hours on a pro-Peking coup in Zanzibar in 1964. A year later, while still nominally a newsman...
...been cut out and could barely resist asking for a description of the hideous operation. Needless to say he was also curious about the aphrodisiacal properties of food, and confesses with wry regret that he postponed his research until too late in life to do the right kind of firsthand job on this fascinating topic...
...most exploited area of the world, the number and variety of legitimate entries would be staggering. Still, on undeniably strong contender is the northeastern region of Brazil, centered about Recife and dominated by its sugar and coffee plantations. This is where Paulo Freire grew up and came to know firsthand the listlessness, hopelessness, and pain of suffering hunger and oppression. Today he is living in the physically comfortable environs of Geneva, Switzerland and probably has not experienced hunger for some years. But he had not forgotten what it was like to share the life of the poor; and his life...