Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overwhelming majority of Senators of both parties. Yet for nearly a year the Senate has dillydallied over the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall as a judge on the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals (New York, Connecticut and Vermont). Why? Because a handful of Southern Senators object to Marshall as the longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the man who successfully argued the 1954 school integration case before the Supreme Court...
...fact, the U.S. may not object to dealing with Major General Helmut Poppe, the East German who was "named" last week to replace the Russian Berlin commander, provided it is understood that he is acting only as "agent" for the Russians, and provided, above all, that the East German does not in any way attempt to undermine the West's position in West Berlin...
...Opera. Two eyes blaze in the darkness like candles flickering inside a skull. Flesh hangs from the skull in soggy clumps. Black bags hang from the eyes like evil growths. The nose is two wormy holes. The ragged lips reveal a clutter of dirty tusks. And over the ghastly object hangs a straggle of stringy hair that looks like horrid skinny legs and suggests that on top of the skull there may be something squatting...
...scientists were clearly impressed by the precision of the Soviet guidance system. Because of the rotation of the earth, an orbiting object passes over the spot of launch only once every 17 orbits...
...must go soppy about something-and no doubt a man must-what better object could there be for his daft, uncritical, wife-maddening, friend-alienating affection than the English language? John Moore, a Gloucestershire man who writes light novels (Dance and Skylark, September Moon), keeps pigs and calls himself an amateur of words, writes agreeably of his lifelong addiction. His most easily recognizable symptom is the logophile's tendency to open his dictionary, innocently intending to check the exact meaning of a word he intends to use to intimidate his publisher, and to become lost there until, hours later...