Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the amnesic lad marked time by doing odd jobs for the Salvation Army and playing honky-tonk piano, distraught mothers of runaways called Key West by the hundreds, claiming him as their own. Finally the real parents showed up, identifying the boy as Kim Basil Kadas, 16, of East...
The question is: How serious? There is no sign that the raids have eroded popular willingness to support the battle in the South-any more than did the bombings of 1965-68. One of the lessons of the Viet Nam War is that a basically agricultural economy such as North...
Barber sets particular store by what he calls FIPS, an acronym for a politician's First Independent Political Success, which sets a pattern for the way a President will approach problems. McGovern's FIPS occurred when he revived the Democratic Party in Republican South Dakota singlehanded. "Judging by...
All organisms capable of photosynthesis-the chemical process by which green plants use the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food and oxygen-show a marked chemical preference for carbon 12, which is the lighter of the two isotopes. As a result, the carbon in the...
If WCVB is after innovation, it does have an impressive staff interested in its change. Included are Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History, who has already had a marked impact on the editorial policy of the station Dr. John Knowles '47, director of the Rockefeller Foundation; the aforementioned Gardner...