Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets heated," Whitla says. "A guy gets disgusted because someone else can't see his point. By the time the whole thing is over, you know everyone on the committee and where his psyche...
...course, some people are naturally conservative: they prefer to avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced with the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around a point...
...called, and practical regulations (rules governing the hours girls are allowed into Harvard rooms) must be upheld. The Administration, possessed with a Harvardian sense of history, demands that you register your marriage and the resulting change in room at the Dean's Office so that "we will know where to hang the plaque in case there is any future need...
...sure?! Oh, come on, hon, you're going to tear me apart!" He laughed. "You know I've been thinking about you all week...
Extreme Revisions. Economists at least know that they do not know these things. Often what they regard as known facts turn out to be little more than guesses. "Most of the leading indicators [the economic statistics that are supposed to foreshadow general business trends] tend to be reported in a preliminary fashion and later revised on the basis of wider sampling," notes Beryl Sprinkel, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "And the revisions can be extreme." Chairman