Word: known
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberalization of language in regard to sex involves the use of perhaps a dozen words. The fact of their currency in what was once known as polite conversation raises some unanswered linguistic questions. Which, really, is the rose, and which the other name? Is "lovemaking" a euphemism for the four-letter word that describes copulation? Or is this blunt Anglo-Saxonism a dysphemism for making love? Are the old forbidden obscenities really the crude bedrock on which softer and shyer expressions have been built? Or are they simply coarser ways of expressing physical actions and parts of the human anatomy...
...housekeepers," nor did they bridle at referring to "upper" or "lower" classes within society. Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian could talk without embarrassment about "sin," a word that today few but clerics use with frequency or ease. It is even becoming difficult to find a doctor, clergyman or undertaker (known as a "mortician") who will admit that a man has died rather than "expired" or "passed away." Death has not lost its sting; the words for it have...
...paper, where he used to talk politics with the publisher's daughter, who is now Minister of Employment and Productivity, Barbara Castle. At 29, choosing unionism "because I wanted to get rid of poverty," Feather started off with the T.U.C. as a local organizer. He is still well known among the rank and file, and he is not at all reluctant to personally wade into trouble on the shop floor. Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations-including British Ford...
...often well-coordinated urban terrorist campaign. The action groups appear to be locally directed, far-leftist, to be sure, but not necessarily Communist. In fact, Moscow, pursuing its objectives in Latin America with trade and aid, often finds the radical terrorists a hindrance. In Brazil, several factions are known to be operating, united only by their desire to overthrow the country's repressive military regime. The scant intelligence available suggests that many of the urban guerrillas are radical, highly nationalistic students between the ages of 20 and 25, convinced of the need for revolution, deeply hostile to their...
...erecting an 8-ft. bronze statue to his memory. Still looking sprightly despite her 70 years, Mrs. MacArthur took a widow's pleasure in traveling up to the Point for the dedication of the statue, as well as a new, six-story dormitory wing that will be known as MacArthur Barrack...