Word: making
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There are 125,000 entries in the new dictionary, hundreds of them brand-new words. Many are technical words, a record of what has been going on in science and industry. Makers of plastics also make words and expressions for everyday use, and polyvinyl. Since the 1936 edition, the physicists too have been busy producing words and expressions for everyday use, e.g., atomic pile, chain reaction, Einstein equation and fissionable...
...want to paint a tree," he cried, "for heaven's sake make it look like a tree! . . . Now, you go to the Tate, and there in a room on the right you'll see a picture by Matisse called...
...Prerogative. Doughty Sir Thomas himself had no intention of disappointing anyone. Boomed he: "I intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool...
...Find a middle ground between making all a child's decisions for him and overwhelming him with too much freedom of choice. She cites the case history of a nine-year-old boy who had been going to progressive schools which forced him to make decisions beyond his capacity. Asked to pick a new school, he suggested a military school because "I won't always have to be deciding what I want...
...keep the truth of her sickness from her, Barbara's parents hid the newspaper. But that only made Barbara suspicious. She guessed that she was dying, and she refused to eat anything at all. Desperately, Barbara's mother appealed to the Star to "print something to make her happy...