Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is the best an international cabal of publishing potentates could do, then our young writers had a singularly unproductive year. The Age of Malaise is not a bad book, but it is an uninspired, and uninspiring one. It flits from bedroom to passion-fraught bedroom following the heroine, a 17 year-old stenography student named Enrica, who clearly is searching for something to bring meaning to her darb existence...
...Dancers fraught with more than usual inhibitions are instructed to "ignore the mirror," or, failing that, to "cover it." Invalids are permitted to move only the movable parts of their bodies, following the rest of the directions in their minds...
...questions that troubled the typewriters of Washington were fraught, as they liked to say, with significance. Was Cuba a nest of Red missiles-or wasn't it? Had De Gaulle's intransigence undermined NATO? Could Pierre Salinger walk 50 miles? In their cogitation chambers, capital columnists pondered such weighty problems. All but one of the columnists, that is. He climbed into his car one day last week and headed for spring training in Fort Lauderdale. Fla. He bore the improbable name of Shirley Povich and an even more improbable distinction. He not only writes sports for the Washington...
Essentially Mr. Hoffmann attempts to prove that the multiple choice question discriminates against the mind that is exceptionally subtle. He claims that the questions on this sort of test are fraught with ambiguity--that all too often, more than one of the suggested answers can be shown to be correct. When the gifted student perceives such a situation, Mr. Hoffmann-argues, his indecision about finding the correct answer, he is reduced to deciding what answer seems best to the examiners...
...differences with the West, Khrushchev hoped that 1963 would solve "urgent problems fraught with new crises," a bit of doubletalk about Berlin that could fit any eventuality. The first would probably come at next week's congress of the East German Communist Party, which Khrushchev will attend...