Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some reason, Velasco had neglected to inform his countrymen, and last week's disclosure from Washington brought a rush of questions in Lima. Velasco held a twelve-hour huddle with his Cabinet and produced a six point communiqué. If the ban on shipments is officially confirmed, it read, then the U.S. military missions currently in Peru might as well go home. It also charged that the ban violated the terms of the bilateral military aid pact existing between the U.S. and Peru as part of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. As an afterthought, the communique added...
...Examiner says he has turned away "tens of thousands of dollars" in advertising that he found overly offensive. Still, the Examiner went ahead and ran the Sister George ad unretouched. Another display ad showed a motorcycle gang from Naked Angels closing in on a near-nude girl. The copy read, "Mad dogs from hell! Hunting down their prey with a quarter-ton of hot steel between their legs...
Ginott also urges parents to realize how easily their children read many levels into the most innocent remarks. Don't tell a cooperative child, "You are always so good-you are an angel," he warns; a child knows he is not always perfect, and is likely to feel anxiety under "an obligation to live up to the impossible...
Misdirection sets the ambush. The book's first two sentences read: "It was a late afternoon of savage bottomlands heat in the April of 1935. Johnny Jesus stood between his two companions, leaning back against a high baggage wagon on the warped bricks of the depot landing and facing the big, moonfaced gunman." Serious business; savage bottomlands heat and a big moonfaced gunman. Grubb adds a sentence of smoky poetry to make sure everyone takes his meaning: "Uncle Doc [the gunman] was one of those humped, huge men who, beneath a cloak of paunch, are cat-swift as dainty...
...page ads in Ohio newspapers. These ads listed the platforms of the two candidates in parallel columns, Saxbe naturally came out for "law and order tempered with justice," while Gilligan was quoted as saying, "I urge students to take to the streets." It was a fraudulent quote. but it read well...