Word: means
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear. Housewives on television may chat about their sex lives in terms that a decade ago would have made gynecologists blush; more often than not, these emancipated women still speak about their children's "going to the potty." Government spokesmen talk about "redeployment" of American troops; they mean withdrawal. When sociologists refer to blacks living in slums, they are likely to mumble about "nonwhites" in a "culturally deprived environment." The CIA may never have used the expression "to terminate with extreme prejudice" when it wanted a spy rubbed out. But in the context of a war in which "pacification...
...figures do not mean that Britain's economic crisis is over. Most of the modest $115 million surplus came from tourism and other "invisible" earnings; high costs and low productivity still result in an excess of imports over exports. Even so, the first tentative signs of success for his tough economic policy gave Wilson some sorely needed leverage to use against the Tories-and against the Labor Party's often uncooperative allies in the labor movement...
...temperature of the southern polar cap was reported as -180°F., or roughly the frost point of carbon dioxide under Martian atmospheric pressure. Now, the scientists say that the temperature is probably about four degrees lower and the atmospheric pressure several millibars higher than first estimated. That would mean that the pole is not solid carbon dioxide, as scientists once speculated. Instead, it is possibly composed of a mixture of carbon dioxide and ordinary ice, and perhaps obscured by a cloud of dry-ice particles...
...interesting date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading; and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in outline form; make sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate:" Be Specific:" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, needn't be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hame ever...
...more meaningful for admissions purposes and Glimp too has a weakness for playing with the number. "Artists have PRL's lower than the Harvard average, while musicians are way above the mean. I think that's sort of an interesting fact." he said...