Word: hewed
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...HEW--Most likely of all cabinet officers to go is Secretary Cellebrezze, a political appointment who has unfortunately lived up to everyone's limited expectation. The two main contenders for the job appear to be Whitney Young, Director of the Urban League, and Sargent Shriver...
...Word for "Worthy." Partly supported by 55 Protestant denominations, each with its own interpretation of Scripture, the Society must by its own constitution hew as closely as possible to the original meaning "without note or comment." Inevitably, however, some of its translations have to ride roughshod. In the Maquiritare language of Venezuela, translators discovered, there is no word for "worthy." So in translating Mark 1:7, they changed one passage to read: "After me comes one who is greater than I. I cannot remove his sandals because he is greater than I." The Venezuelan tribesmen took the sentence literally, visualized...
...actually passing bills, and less in the proper ways. His judgements are concise, devoid of rationalization and pussy-footing: "I just did not go along with Clark on the rules fight." The bills Ribicoff has introduced are not radical, but are simply mop-ups on his work in HEW. He hasn't introduced anything specifically to help Connecticut, although he considers the recently passed Mass Transit Bill to be an answer to his campaign promise to help the Fairfield County commuters. On the Finance Committee, he considers himself a representative of New England, not just Connecticut. Connecticut "likes a Senator...
...Hewed to Taste. Sparks's ambitions make him a traitor to the serious seekers of the ethnic. But Sparks makes no apologies. "I can sing just as ethnically as they can," he says, "and so can all of us. But we hew to the public taste because the public pays our salaries...
Wild Ungulata. A soapbox liberal on most issues, Young is also a blunt opponent of Government bureaucracy. Investigating expenditures of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, he once hooted at HEW grants for research projects on the social role of wild ungulata ($8,205), Indian caste cohesiveness and personality development ($7,820), the ontogeny of English phrase structure ($2,100), and blood groups genetics of Southampton Island Eskimos...