Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFTER all the official regrets and apologies have been received and accepted, the immediate question before us is how it happened that the Nixons were exposed to these outrages. It is manifest that the whole South American tour was misconceived, that it was planned by men who did not know what was the state of mind in the cities the Vice President was to visit. For what has happened should never have been allowed to happen and those who are responsible for the management of our relations with South America must answer to the charge of gross incompetence. We must...
...ante worried Hays more than the morals of the matter ("I do not know what the quid pro quo was") or the economics ("He is doing what the President says -'Buy Now' "). To keep it from soaring higher at U.S. expense, Hays introduced an amendment striking out $400,000 in military aid and $200,000 in technical assistance funds to Trujillo...
...section men to strain their eyes--which either develops their eye muscles or keeps optometrists employed, both noble effects. Furthermore, the bluebook scrawl preserves the graders' traditional right to punish an undergraduate for bad penmanship. This results in suffering for both graded and grader, and suffering, as we all know, is a part of growing up, which is good...
...seen both sides, so I know what I'm saying. If you stick here too long you'll be pigeon-holed for life. These guys come over there too, but they're so full of second-hand garbage they can't see what's real if they try. They're the night club crew. Ten minutes in Chartres, an hour in the Louvre, and all day in some sidewalk cafe (where they can see all the other Americans). They're the Lido boys, who travel first class and stay at the Ritz. The double-scotch-with-ice bunch that finds...
...know how they solved that?" said Mrs. Rudolph. "They opened every interview with an old Tamil proverb that goes, 'If you want to know if the rice is done, take out one spoonful and taste it.' There you have the theory of random sampling in a nutshell...