Word: interpretted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information is picked up by those spy-in-the-sky satellites. They take clear pictures in color, black and white, infra-red or ultraviolet. They also eavesdrop on radio and microwave communications. This is called "ferreting," and we have 6,000 people who do nothing but try to interpret voices and microwave stuff from the other side. If you think that's a lot, the Soviets are supposed to have 30,000 ferrets listening to us. I wonder what they think they're gonna hear...
Before they accept the proposal many third-year students, whose class is the first to fall under the concentration requirement, want to know how flexibly the board will interpret the phrase, "exceptional circumstances...
Novelists who have trained as journalists can usually be identified by their lack of plumage. There is something about trying to interpret the world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are implied, not spelled out. Anyone who has followed Joan Didion's career as a magazine writer can easily discern the newsprint between her fine lines. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of her best magazine work, brought wide praise in 1968. With the publication of her novel Play...
...long as she remains married, however, Marabel continues to interpret submissiveness in her own irrepressible way. One of her pieces of advice to the Total Woman is to wave goodbye to the husband when he leaves for work. A neighbor saw Marabel doing that herself one morning not long ago. Only she didn't just wave. She suddenly started doing the cancan...
...University's brief will urge the court to interpret the Constitution broadly, permitting universities to implement a wide variety of affirmative action admissions procedures to achieve racial, ethnic and sexual diversity...