Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxpayer! Who else? As his numbers decrease, his load increases. With so many of our people living off him -local, state and federal governments, their employees, service personnel, defense project employees, armed services, and useless navy yard personnel-who could object...
...years over thinly disguised racial discrimination. Except for a token number of Russian students, the dining rooms and dormitories of Lumumba U. (which Africans sardonically call "Apartheid U.") are segregated. Africans find it difficult to date a Russian girl. Students squirm at the stares they get in public and object to poor service they often receive in restaurants. Despite professions of brotherhood, many Russians still think Africans are half-civilized strangers who have just emerged from the jungle...
...neutrality, Pakistan claimed that it was a hostile gesture on the part of both countries, and Red China said that it was another example of the subversion of India by Western imperialists. As for Nehru, he performed like a sea lawyer in lukewarmly endorsing the plan. "How can we object to anyone going where he likes on the high seas," he said...
...which mankind naturally thinks," calling its movement from subject to predicate "a sort of moving picture of thought." To follow the mind's natural order, he said, "keep your subject close to the beginning of your sentence" and "keep your verb as close to its object as possible." Avoid too many verbs; evoke the reader's imagination. "The fewer the words that can be made to convey an idea, the clearer and the more forceful that idea." Not We walked down the main street, which was very long, but We walked down the long main street...
Skeptical Neighbors. Critics of the White Australia policy, including leading churchmen and educators, object that only through selective Asian immigration can the government hope to attract all the skilled citizens it needs. Moreover, they argue, Australia can never realize its potential as a leader of Southeast Asia so long as its neighbors are convinced that Australians are white supremacists. Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies in fact ordered more liberal interpretation of immigration policy, but he insisted during the recent election campaign that he would never permit any basic reform in the law. To do so, said he, "would create...