Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world are in tolerably good condition. His judgment is reinforced by the cables and memos that reach his desk. From a sheaf of papers, he will recite encouraging tidings from his military advisers, a favorable report from Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker on the South Vietnamese election campaign, a note from Jack Valenti assuring him of his popularity. Mrs. Johnson dropped in during one such discourse recently. "That's not what I read in the papers!" she exclaimed...
...over most such operations. Since then, the level of violent incidents has risen from 5,000 a year to 25,000, the work of elite three-man cells that travel from job to job, like any gangster gun for hire. They take pride in their work, often pinning a note on the chest of a victim describing the reasons for his execution. They do not like to be blamed for other people's murders. Sometimes the V.C. go so far as to issue leaflets denying responsibility for a killing and blaming the death on bandits posing as Viet Cong...
...wide-open future-use possibilities, the Maimonides doctors note that 15% of all heart-attack victims suffer shock complications...
They are not young men, nor are they yet men of note. They are worldly philosophers--quick to understand the classical implications of modern-day politics, and quick to dispose of classical rationalizations...
...tank will be shown how to compose a sentence that ends with nine prepositions ("What did you bring the book that I do not wish to be read on to out of up from Down Under for?"). He will also be given the correct term for a 1 28th note in music (quasihemidemisemiquaver, or semi-hemidemisemiquaver). Good sport that he is, Borgmann asks his fans for suggestions. How about this: What is the significance of this series: 8, 14, 23, 28, 34, 42, 49, 57? Hint: any straphanger on the New York BMT subway can see the answer pass before...