Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This afternoon in the I.A.B. pool, the highly-talented but underfunded aquamen will swim head-on into the watery fray in an exhibition rematch against league rival Yale...
...questions as "What is meaning?" Some public interest and amusement has been spurred by the intramural squabbling of Chomskians and neo Chomskians, generative semanticists and Modified Standard Theoreticians; and the narrow, doctrinaire character of those disputes has spurred people with a broader interest in language to join the fray. Walker Percy, a novelist (The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins), sides with those who consider contemporary linguistics as just so much debris that needs to be swept aside before a really perceptive examination of language can begin...
...Civil Rights Commission last week entered the right-to-life fray, opposing proposed constitutional amendments to ban abortion, and three laws that restrict federal funding for it. The commission, acting under its mandate to monitor federal policies on sex discrimination, said that anti-abortion amendments would hinder the rights of women as well as the religious rights of persons who hold different views. The commission is headed by Arthur Flemming, a Methodist layman who was formerly president of the National Council of Churches. Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York, chairman of the Catholic bishops' pro-life committee, protested that...
Despite the furor he had stirred, Rockefeller said later that in similar circumstances he might plunge into the fray again. The U.S. Senate has obviously not heard the last...
...states since it was approved by Congress in 1972, is still four states short of the necessary three-fourths majority. To speed up this sluggish process and increase the amendment's chance of ratification, Betty Ford has taken to the telephone with a zeal for public fray not seen in the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt...