Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filled his speech with anecdotes, saying John Quincy Adams told his mother the "mere mention of the word attorney' incites the ire of others...
Herewith our further nominations for the titles of your "audible autos" [May 14]: pontificating Pontiacs, orating Oldsmobiles, garrulous Gremlins, muttering MGs, tittering Thunderbirds, chattering Corvettes, vociferous Volvos, conversant Cadillacs, stuttering Saabs and the omnipresent voluble Volkswagens. We favor articulate, not to mention alliterative, automobiles...
...fought hard against the separatist yearnings of his fellow French Canadians in his native province of Quebec (see box). Swept to power on a wave of "Trudeaumania," he had once seemed the very model of a philosopher-statesman, blessed with an impressive intellect and an acerbic wit-not to mention a sensuous young wife. But last week Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 59, who had served three times as Canada's chief executive, was narrowly defeated in an election that he had suggested would decide whether his nation would remain one country or risk division into English-and French-speaking enclaves...
...condemned. An architectural engineering study has revealed weaknesses in its support system, and funds will have to be raised to prevent its decay and demise. Reardon told the committee that "parts of Baker Field at Columbia have been condemned, and it's very embarrassing to a school (not to mention its athletic director) to have it happen...
...Smith regime do the predicting--they said 60 per cent turnout would be an endorsement of the process, and sure enough, when the turnout broke 60, bang! instant international legitimacy. Instant legitimacy, that is, in the eyes of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives in England, not to mention a majority of the U.S. Senate...