Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion in war costs. In between there were fibs and fudges, convenient losses of memory, tampering with records, feigned confusion and phony definitions of words and phrases. One way or another, it was all designed to obscure the truth. One way or another, it was all done in the name of the greater national interest. But in the end, it all came down in the American mind to a short, blunt outrage-lying...
...traded in the club's nondescript 200-ft. by 200-ft. room. Reports TIME'S John Tompkins: "You get into an elevator with a crowd of Hasidim and feel them staring, wondering who you are. All the brokers know each other by sight, if not by name. A set of electrically operated bulletproof glass doors leads to the room's lobby, and another automatic door, with the legend NO VISITORS ALLOWED, and operated by a guard, leads to the trading floor. As in every store and office in the area, there are plenty of closed-circuit cameras...
When the classes were over, orchestra members were surrounded by people wanting their autographs. Clarinetist Harold Wright signed his name to a paper and then said, "My God, that's a passport." The Boston players were full of admiration for the students' ability, but shocked by their equipment. Most instruments are either bad or terrible. Strings on violins and cellos are steel-cheap, durable, but incapable, as Ozawa says, of making "a mild tone." The conservatory library is sparse and quirky. If the Chinese were brilliant and intense in their execution, they were also rigid. Said one Boston...
...Representative" or "an U.S. Representative"? Where does the apostrophe go in "the Smiths' (or Smith's) car"?*Fifteen times a day, on the average, telephone callers put these questions to an Emporia State University English instructor with the appropriate name of Faye Vowell...
Fans call him the "Ragin' Cajun" and "Louisiana Lightnin'." By any other name he is Ron Guidry, the best pitcher in baseball-and the best known of that group of 900,000 French-speaking Louisianians, descendants of French farmer-fishermen, who live in the bayou country south and west of New Orleans. Except for Guidry's left arm, Cajuns are known mostly by hearsay. They are reputed to play strange-sounding accordion music, make a mean gumbo, and generally be as colorful as the crawfish in their bayous. The rumors are right, as Journalist William Rushton demonstrates...