Word: laconicism
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Three of Mosaic's articles were written by students who spent summers working or studying in foreign countries. "Between Semesters" by Anthony Kroch consists of selections from a journal he kept while studying the "dying negritude" of the Bassari tribe in the African interior. In brief and eclectic observations Kroch...
First, Vinson lies 400 miles due east of remote Byrd Station, and only 600 miles from the South Pole. Second, Antarctica is racked by fierce (up to 90 m.p.h.) gales and covered with ice up to 14,000 ft. thick; the temperature, even in the middle of summer, can drop...
The Supreme Court's Miranda decision has dismayed some policemen, embittered some prosecutors, and baffled some judges. But U.S. television is taking it in stride. In Denver last week, a meeting of 500 district attorneys from across the country was visited by Actor Ben Alexander, burly, laconic co-star...
To the Indians, Lake Tahoe meant "Big Water," a laconic understatement even for an Indian. Twenty-two miles long, twelve miles wide and one-third of a mile deep, Tahoe is the third largest alpine lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake...
The decision to bail out was finally made for him when an explosion ripped the plane apart and triggered the ejection mechanism. Adams floated safely down into the South China Sea with nothing worse than burned hands. Bellinger, riding shotgun overhead, drove off a nearby North Vietnamese fishing junk; minutes...