Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loxosceles laeta -a poisonous South American spider-has been the object of an intensive search and destroy campaign by the museum staff since 1962, and no one's sure that they've gotten them...
...interview last night, Buchanan said that the object of the Laos invasion is "to guarantee the success of American troops left in South Vietnam during the next dry season in October. We expected tough fighting and that's what we're having...
...When we were growing up, my dad conceived a plan by which we children would have incentive to earn those things we wanted. Whatever money we earned or saved toward purchasing a desired object would be matched by him. Why not a similar plan applied to the welfare system? Anyone going off welfare by getting a job could have his first month's salary matched 100%. After that, his second-to sixth-month's salary would be matched 50%. From six months to a year, 10% of his salary would be matched. This money would be held...
...style often works like an elastic bag into which he can pour anything from political conventions to traffic congestion and come up with instant apocalyptic meditations. His early essays in the middle fifties were pure mental bombast; the weight of reflection far exceeded the weight of its object so that it hardly mattered what he was talking about. Starting with the '64 Republican Convention and culminating with Armies of the Night. he had found the kind of material to which his species of unconventional thinking and his concepts of writing were splendidly suited. However, even when reporting on the march...
...military leaders themselves, Stone suggested that the Vietnam war serve as an object lesson in how dumb the Joint Chiefs of Staff are. General Westmoreland, for years enthusiastic about fighting the war, was only "a boy scout who had been at Harvard Business School," he said...