Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon is still capable of little bloopers. He was too quick, for instance, to criticize Abe Fortas' appointment as Chief Justice. Nixon, who won fewer than 1% of the Jewish votes in a recent Michigan survey (v. 20% for Rocky), thereby threatened to sap his appeal to that group even...
Huffin' Butts. Last week the eighth trip landed in St. Louis. Some of the kids conceded that it was a success-although one insisted that he would rather have stayed home "huffin' butts and goin' to parties." But they had learned the advantages of cooperation and shared...
Sir: Mr. Kennedy's deductions are the most truthful, amusing and amazing I've learned in the longest time. At many points, I actually laughed aloud. Bravo!
Quinn Tamm, 58, is not a policeman at all, but he is one of the most influential voices for police reform in the country. He has been behind most of the chiefs' innovations and has been a prime mover in efforts to interest the colleges in crime and college...
"A pair of substantial mammary glands," said Oliver Wendell Holmes the Elder in 1867, "has the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritious fluid for infants." Although eminently sound, Dr. Holmes's medical opinion was ignored...