Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haven't formulated a definite plan yet, but the money involved is not huge in terms of our budget," he said...
...officials have become more wary of writing negative letters; they fear that they will be sued. At San Rafael High School near San Francisco, some teachers now write "I won't answer this because of the Buckley law" across the letter forms. At Lee High School, in New Haven, Conn., Laura Stewart, head of the guidance department, refuses to check the "I do-do not-recommend this student" on the forms. Explains Joseph Doohan, principal of Edgemont High School in Scarsdale, N.Y.: "Many teachers aren't interested in getting into the hassle that might come from honest...
...world of the bouncing ball, the Crimson hoopsters haven't been doing too much dribbling lately, but the Princeton Tigers have. The Tigers methodically moved into the Associated Press's Top Twenty this week with a 58-55 upset of St. John's last Saturday. Princeton stands 17th, and leads the nation in team defense...
Bachman, a discerning student of English with an M.A. from the University of Chicago, approached her work with firm opinions. "My assumption," she once said, "is that the standard of literate English still goes back to Victorian English, and that people who haven't read Darwin, Ruskin, Dickens and Thackeray don't have quite the right idiom." To make sure that TIME stories have that idiom, Bachman wrote a 180-page style handbook that we rely on to protect our usage against what she labeled "substandard word fusions (someplace, noplace), folksy expressions (likely used for probably) and bureaucratese...
...contribution to their lives, after all, that lifts Lady Morrell from the sad category of the eccentric to the realm of the creative. From her first days in London as a political hostess, to her old age spent in Garsington, the country home that became a haven for both aging artists and young Oxford undergraduates, Ottoline kept herself surrounded by a protective wall of friends and acquaintances. Like Hermione Roddice, she filled her house with intellectuals, defining her own worth by her part in their creative efforts...