Word: primered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conspirator who would not be tried under this indictment. The grand jury was quite specific about one intriguing point ?that the conspirators had aimed to enter an underground tunnel system in Washington that carries heating pipes and blow them up, using "destructive devices consisting of dynamite, 'plastic explosive,' primer cord and detonating devices which had not been registered to them in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record." The little-known, 16-mile labyrinthine tunnel network in Washington is practically a New World version of the sewers of Paris?and potentially equally useful to an American maquisard. The steam...
...President has clearly got the message that the economy badly needs a dose of stimulation if unemployment is to be cut substantially by 1972. Politically, Nixon has little choice but to accept deficit spending as an economic pump primer, however offensive the notion of unbalanced budgets is to orthodox Republican economics. "I am now a Keynesian," he confessed shyly after the TV conversation -which led ABC's Howard K. Smith, one of his interlocutors, to observe later: "That is a little like a Christian Crusader saying, 'All things considered, I think Mohammed was right...
...package a mawkish screenplay into a "promo" for the movie even before it is released. If the literary residue has all the integrity of Newspeak, it reads so quickly that you finish before you really begin. By eliminating antique appendages like adjectives and adverbs, Segal created the Evelyn Wood Primer without the Evelyn Wood course. His novel naturally made the critics apoplectic. What more serious writers hoped to develop-the cinematic novel-Segal achieved rather grossly in a pulp classic that has more blackouts than Laugh-In or Meander. The GWTW Margaret Mitchell shouldn't be living at this hour...
...National Endowment for the Arts, the suspicion that children are full of verse, and a determination to make them aware of it. His success is convincingly demonstrated in Wishes, Lies, and Dreams (Chelsea House; $7.95), a collection of his pupils' work. In a long introduction to the delightful primer, Koch tells how he did it and how other teachers...
Turning professional at 20, he eluded capture for over a decade by studying the gamekeepers−their habits, their movements, their hours spent in the pubs−as closely as he did the geese. From this intelligence he formed a kind of primer for poachers: "Know your ground, your ditches, your roadways on which a car can approach in the evenings without its headlights on. Never go to the same place twice running. The keeper will find your footprints, and the next night he'll be waiting for you." For all his precautions, Thorpe found the law waiting...