Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he first vowed to maintain silence until the investigation was completed, Agnew quickly changed his mind after aides convinced him that such a silence would be politically disastrous. In marked contrast to Nixon, Agnew called a press conference to deny any wrongdoing. Looking confident and totally in command during...
After two terms in the state house of representatives, Anderson was elected to the senate and marked as a comer. In 1968, Hubert Humphrey chose him to be his Minnesota chairman in the presidential race. He began thinking about the governorship and accepting speaking invitations all over the state. In...
Pert, occasionally impertinent Newswoman Sally Quinn, 32, this week begins squaring off against NBC's Barbara Walters each morning on CBS-TV. During rehearsals leading up to the debut, she was alternately laughing hysterically and feeling "frozen with terror." Sally shares an apartment with her longtime boy friend, Warren...
It would be startling if nannying had not had a marked effect on the English character. The celebrated English unflappability is capsulized in the answer given in 1940 to a frightened two-year-old who asked about the loud noises he was hearing. "Bombs, dear," said Nanny. "Elbows off the...
What should have happened last summer--long before the American people went to the polls--is what has been unfortunately delayed until the present: a complete investigation into the who, what, when, where, and why of the Watergate break-in(s). To be sure, there were those who did attempt...