Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was little debate on the largest public-works bill since 1963, and less opposition. Small wonder. Every state will get a piece of the action-a dam, a federal office building, a harbor-improvement project or some other goody that a Congressman can mention to his constituents. "Somebody ought to oppose the pork barrel," cried New York Republican Theodore Kupferman. Aside from Kupferman, whose Manhattan silk-stocking district got nothing...
...nouveau print shift. Right beside her stood another of the Kennedy birthday girls, wearing an identical, size 8 print shift, with a pair of white-mesh mod stockings thrown in for kicks. "You can say I'm 72," joked Rose Kennedy, "but please don't mention that it came from me." So the Boston Globe printed that she was 72 and didn't say it came from her. What more gracious present could it give her on her 77th birthday...
Lewis scarcely nods toward the more prosaic functions of autobiography. He comes onstage at 30, blithely, without mention of past or parents or education. Much of the book is devoted to his encounters with writers, government figures, Mayfair snobs and rich art patronesses. There are adequate but curiously distant sections on World War I and its aftermath. But it was the war of words, in which he could choose the issues and the weapons, that Lewis relished most. So will his readers...
This comedy is regarded as a minor classic in France. On the theory that misery loves company, it is easy to see how French audiences might take the play to their hearts, not to mention their livers. A nation of hypochrondiacs might well find it plausible and even grimly amusing to watch Dr. Knock make the well ill. But Boston's large English-speaking sector will no doubt find it a silly bore...
...interabang gains the acceptance of grammarians, printers and writers, it will be the first punctuation symbol to enter the printed language since the introduction of the quotation mark during the late 17th century. Some typographical experts have already hailed its unique ability to express the ambiguity, not to mention the schizophrenia, of modern life. The interabang, cracks Harvard University Press's monthly bulletin the Browser, "might with profit appear editorially at the end of all remarks from the political platform and the pulpit...