Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaking with outrage and fear. I've had one traffic ticket in my life, with none of the strip searching in the police station [March 19] you mention. However, I would probably become a basket case if such a thing did happen to me. A person seems to be guilty until proved innocent. I don't want to sue after it happens; I want to keep it from happening...
...floor of the Washington Hilton. Both Sadat and Begin had scheduled final meetings with Carter that morning. First, Begin wanted the Gulf of Aqaba to be referred to as Eilat after the city that lies at its head. That solution was easy. Eilat was inserted in parentheses after the mention of Aqaba in the notes accompanying the treaty. But Begin's insistence that the West Bank, so crucial in the coming negotiations, be called by the biblical name of Judea and Samaria was something else. Without this change he could not sign, insisted the Premier. He clamped...
...John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes no mention of it, Kimball can boast such a fruitful family tree largely because his grandfather, in the polygamous old days, had 45 wives...
Without stating this as its intention, the article analyzed the data collected according to the gender of the people surveyed. The individual who interviewed me never suggested that the survey was in any way concerned with women's opinions or women's issues, nor did he mention the fact that he was recording men's and women's answers seperately. Yet in the article the responses are grouped statistically according to sex and discussed along the same lines...
...mention income tax time as when "the ides of April draw near." According to the ancient Roman calendar, however, the ides of April were not April 15 but April 13, as shown in this mnemonic jingle that I learned in Latin classes...