Word: firsthand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Radcliffe Union of Students, the Undergraduate Council or the Crimson need not read any further. The recent attack against the Pi Eta has been the most unwarranted vigilante crusade that I have ever experienced in my life. NONE of the people who are attacking the Pi Eta have any firsthand knowledge of the club whatsoever. They are simply jumping on one of the many bandwagons that exist here at Harvard. Had they made any effort to find out what the club is really all about, they might have been surprised...
Classified technical data indicates that the Soviets are involved with the development of chemical weapons. Hundreds of firsthand reports exist from refugees claiming to be the victims of yellow rain. Samples taken from alleged attack sites have been studied under laboratories and shown to contain toxins far in excels of what is normally found in Asia; these include samples of rocks, leaves, and blood and urine from alleged victims that do not contain the famous yellow spots Meselson says now are bee feces...
...fact that today's youth belong to the first generation that has not been directly touched by the fervor of the Bolshevik Revolution or tempered by the monumental sacrifices of World War II. In his speech last year, Chernenko complained that "our young people have not seen firsthand the grim trials of class struggle and war, when the true face of imperialism with its hatred for the peoples of our country and for the socialist system was laid absolutely bare." Such finger wagging does not find a receptive audience among the grandchildren of the Revolution. "That he says these...
Senior Correspondent Peter Stoler, who wrote this week's cover story on the troubles of the nuclear industry, has a rare firsthand knowledge of the subject, including some hands-on experience running a reactor. During simulated exercises in 1980 at a training center for technicians in Morris, Ill., Stoler recalls, "I undertook a routine drill to bring the reactor back on line. It was supposed to be gradual, but I brought it along too fast and overheated it. If it had been a real reactor, I'd have melted it down...
...insistence." That is not an ad slogan from Gandhi's Nonviolent Health Spa. It's the muscle-making motto of Raquel Welch, 43, who last week finished writing her entry into the bulging exercise-book market. "This was the first time I was able to say something firsthand," explains Welch, who spent a year collaborating with Husband-Photographer Andre Weinfeld, 37, on Raquel's Health and Beauty Book. "We didn't want the drill-instructor look-I think the pictures should be inspirational." Indeed. This is one time when the medium should be every...