Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE Moscow was celebrating Lenin's centennial with pomp and rhetoric, the Soviet military marked the occasion in a more dramatic way. Fanning out across three oceans and nine seas, more than 200 Soviet warships staged the greatest naval maneuvers in the world's history. At the same...
Nader spoke on the role of the professional in fighting pollution at a dinner at the Hotel Continental. Five hundred people attended the dinner, which marked the conclusion of an environmental conference sponsored by the New England Chapter of the Sierra Club.
The occasion was marked by the panache that Thomas Hoving has displayed ever since he became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art three years ago. Mrs. Richard Nixon flew from Washington to help inaugurate a show of 19th century American art. Next day, Manhattan's finest and richest...
The crowd moved down Beacon St., chanting "Free Bobby Seale-Now." It was an angry chant, with little of the happy, excited sound that had marked the chanting the day before. Groups marched with arms linked, looking forward, intent on getting where they were going.
The company also takes a poll of consumer confidence. For the first time, says President Albert E. Sindlinger, that survey shows marked regional variations. Confidence is still high in rural areas and the South, but it is low where defense, construction and consumer durable-goods industries are based. "Up until...