Word: objectionable
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Right, but still incorrect. With traditional quirkiness, the Swedish Academy last week bestowed the Nobel laurel (and approximately $193,000) on English Novelist William Golding. The decision dumbfounded nearly everybody and drove one of the 18 academy members into an unprecedented public complaint. Artur Lundkvist, 77, called the selection of...
1927 Personally, there is only one item I object to and that is where I advocate the players should not eat bananas. This should read "unripe bananas" as I have no objection to the fruit when it is ripe.
* Opening positions on which national forces to consider also differed. The West believed that American and Soviet forces should be reduced first, to set an example and increase confidence, with the allied governments following suit. The East wanted to include all NATO forces, especially Germany's, in the reductions simultaneously...
"Draper has already gone through the process of notifying the neighborhood, and there's been no real objection," said Councilor Daniel J. Clinton, who voted for construction of the walkway.
For his part, Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson did neither when he was up for re-election last November, but he came close enough to defeat: his margin of victory was a mere 5,074 votes. Last week the Washington Post reported that in the middle of Thompson's...