Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marine Corps, remembers a different John. Says Krulak: "He was a popular and natural leader, and a superb mimic. He also had a real talent for the short story. I don't recall any of their plots except that they usually concerned 138-lb. wrestlers...
...first channel, scheduled to go into operation next spring, will mimic the all-news format used by many radio stations, with roundups of the day's top stories aired at least twice every hour, and sports, weather and short features tucked in between. "Give us 18 minutes," Satellite NewsChannels boasts, "and we'll give you the world." Satellite NewsChannels will carry film footage from ABC News but will not enlist the network's on-camera correspondents. Using four of the Group W stations and a mini-network of other local stations around the country, the new channel...
...members by what is applauded and what condemned; status symbol is synonymous with status signal. "Language," said Samuel Johnson, "is the dress of thought." But all over the world people act as though language were mere costume-and usually a disguise. Everybody (evidently nobody can help it) tends to mimic that anonymous signaler cited in Proverbs: "He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers...
...artists. Yet his images in the 1960s, taken from comic strips and ads-"I know how you must feel, Brad!" whispers the enormous girl's mouth to its exclusively art-world audience-were once rebuked for their dumbness, their lack of "real" art content. To mimic the processes of commercial art, to take a common image and replicate it on canvas, much larger, with hard-edged line and stenciled arrays of Ben Day dots in primary colors for shading: Could this be art? Is the Pope Catholic...
...Saudi Arabia, which produces 10.3 million bbl. of crude oil daily, or 40% of all the output of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is intentionally forcing them lower. As longtime champions of steady, but moderate, rises in the price of oil, the Saudis have refused to mimic price hawks like Libya, Iran and Iraq. Instead, the Saudis for the past nine months have been pumping nearly 2 million bbl. per day above their self-imposed limit of 8.5 million bbl. daily in order to create an oil surplus and drive prices down...