Word: margarete
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...Margaret Penny Wood...
...Newspeak, “A Clockwork Orange” had Nadsat—each distorted, disorienting vocabulary a warning of possible ills. In “The Year of the Flood,” her most recent novel and the second in a series of three, Margaret Atwood similarly invents a dictionary for her post-apocalyptic world. But her words are amusing than ominous—the lexicon for a dystopian vision at once entertaining and insubstantial. Atwood’s way with words should come as no surprise. The Canadian author has dozens of works (novels, books of poetry...
...times as much as it is today." It turned out to be more than 33 times as large. "It will be gone by June," promised Variety in 1955 - talking about rock 'n' roll. "It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister," declared Margaret Thatcher...
...black or Asian students all eating and socializing separately—was indeed a problem that needed to be addressed. From there concrete solutions were difficult to come by, but audience members took turns relating experiences ranging from racial profiling to their experiences branching out to other ethnic groups. Margaret C. Dang ’12 said that she often feels “uncomfortable” in her own ethnic group, particularly because she does not speak Chinese. “I’ve been trying to find balance,” she told the audience...
...work. The economic-stimulus bill passed by Congress in February included $100 billion in new education spending. Of that total, Duncan has $5 billion in discretionary funding. That money alone makes him the most powerful Education Secretary ever. "I had very little--in the single-digit millions," says Margaret Spellings, Duncan's predecessor. "That's millions, with...