Word: gist
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...spectrum. But when the Caltech astronomers got their first look at this object's spectrum, displayed in the form of an EKG-like graph on a computer screen, they were shocked. "Our mouths fell open," says Djorgovski. "I suspect that what we said was not printable. But the gist of it was, 'What the heck is this...
...buying it, any more than they had his public apologies--particularly after the delivery of the Starr report on Sept. 9. "She's never read it," says Berry, "but she certainly has the gist." Clinton himself, sources tell TIME, has complained to confidants that the independent counsel seemed to be going out of his way to hurt the First Lady and make the marriage unhealable. Why else include not only every last soul-destroying sexual detail but also Lewinsky's testimony that the President had told her that he expected to be alone after he left office and that...
Although I heartily agree with the gist of Krauthammer's Essay, I think it is important to consider the consequences of colonizing the moon before we rush to fulfill our "lust for the frontier." For some of us, the moon still represents dreams and romance. How would we feel if it were covered with golf courses, motels and fast-food joints? CRAIG HANSEN Fujishi, Japan...
...last-minute reprieve when the three-judge panel determined that they would not have to testify until the full appeals court made up its mind whether to hear the White House argument. To no one's surprise--full court hearings are rarely granted--the judges rejected the idea. The gist of their ruling was that Secret Service agents are sworn officers of the law; they are obliged to testify about potential wrongdoing and can do so without endangering the President's security. In a concurring opinion, Judge Laurence Silberman referred to the proposed privilege as "a constitutional absurdity." The White...
Somebody glib said that the best way to be a good man is to just be the man your mother thinks you are. Or something like that, you get the gist. I can't even remember it now, even though there was a time when I found it impressively true, true, oh so true. Whoever it was, he must have been Victorian...