Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will blush to the roots of his reddish hair. Tall, withdrawn, wraithlike, the army colonel is an authentic revolutionary, but he has so little taste for haranguing crowds that he usually gives his speeches in classical Arabic, which most Algerians do not understand. "Believe me," he is wont to remark, "I don't like the role...
Fitting at 3 a.m. English tailor-made suits carry no labels, and the firms themselves seldom, if ever, advertise, prefer to prosper by word of mouth. The remark, "My London tailor's in town," quietly passed along among friends, seems to work wonders. J. C. Wells Ltd. sent its first traveling man to the U.S. in 1927 on a "prestige visit," was surprised when he came back with 100 orders; this year Wells's man, A.S. Richardson, brought back 1,000 orders, an increase of 200 over five years ago. Henry Poole & Co. has American family accounts going...
...felons to intimidate, beset and harass' a discharged jury in an effort to establish possible grounds for a new trial." The decision, said Harlan, "may be thought by some to commit" federal courts holding habeas corpus hearings to interrogate every jury "upon the mere allegation that a prejudicial remark has reached the ears of one of its members." But any large-scale jail delivery is hardly likely. Lower courts are still free to decide each case on its merits; they are not bound to find jury prejudice and order new trials according to the generous dictates of Parker...
Your story on the teaching fellows' organizational meeting of December 12 quoted a remark of mine out of context, with dismaying results...
Many people who knew that I am presently sectioning Professor Michael Walzer's course on Contemporary Political Theory (Gov 104) read the remark as a personal attack. This has been particularly depressing to me, because Professor Walzer is the last person I would want to attack: working with him in the last few months is the most exciting thing that has happened to me academically in four years at Harvard...