Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English still goes back to Victorian English, and that people who haven't read Darwin, Ruskin, Dickens and Thackeray don't have quite the right idiom." To make sure that TIME stories have that idiom, Bachman wrote a 180-page style handbook that we rely on to protect our usage against what she labeled "substandard word fusions (someplace, noplace), folksy expressions (likely used for probably) and bureaucratese (implement used as a verb...
...sexual union before marriage, at least in cases where the couple intends to marry. Rome will not have that. Says the declaration: "Every genital act must be within the framework of marriage." The decree reasons that "love must find its safeguard in the stability of marriage" in order to "protect human dignity" and give children the ordered environment they need. This requires nothing short of a marriage contract that is sanctified by the church and "guaranteed by society...
...several large rock outcroppings; they warned that as much as 40 million cu. yds. of rock, a mass three times greater than that of Grand Coulee Dam, could break loose, slide into the lake and trigger flooding. In September, researchers from Eastern Washington State College, wearing oxygen masks to protect them from the sulfurous fumes, made their way through cave passages in a 140-ft.-thick layer of ice and snow to reach the center of the crater. There they found a football-field-sized lake of steaming acid, some of which is leaking into streams fed by the mountain...
...professional news organizations filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief on the Nebraska gag order, which is now before the full Supreme Court. The press brief concedes that pretrial publicity can compromise a defendant's rights. But it argues that a judge has other ways to protect those rights; such methods have included ordering jurors not to read or view news accounts of the trial, sequestering the jurors, and delaying or moving the trial if the pretrial atmosphere in a community is too prejudicial. Referring to such examples as the Angela Davis and John Connally trials, which were...
...western, eat le snack (pronounced znag) or le sandwich in le living room or le drugstore, and sip un cocktail or un Scotch sur les rocks at le party au le weekend. Now, in a new effort to knockouter "the most obvious instances of language degradation and to protect the citizen from possible harm," a new law, Number 75-1349, forbids the use of foreign words in advertising, business contracts, TV and radio programs and the like...