Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the language was developed to cushion tragedy: everybody feared having their sheep frozen or starved by a sudden change in the weather. That was too big a disaster just to report baldly, so they would say "That frigid perel [cold rain, which resembles little pearls] made many white spots [dead lambs]. There'll be nemer croppies [no more sheep, which crop the grass] come boche season [boche, meaning deer, is derived from a Pomo word...
Precisely what conclusions the Soviet America watchers have reached is still classified information. From the advance indicators, however, they will cause few sleepless nights for party-liners. Arbatov, in his review of the Brookings report, rather grandly diagnosed many U.S. problems as "the natural outcome of the social system and the way of life prevailing in the country." As for Nixon, the institute's scientific director, Vladimir Filatov, last week safely predicted that "he will be true to his class...
...expect to earn less. Some companies continue to pay all or part of a man's salary while he serves, but they tend to get balky when the trial is protracted. In Millbury, Mass., the John Bath toolmaking company once insisted that an employee on jury duty report to work for an hour and three-quarters each morning before the court convened. A judge fined the company $3,000 and its vice president $500, ruling that "a juror is a juror 24 hours...
...warrant, said the court, should have contained both more detail on what led the informant to conclude that the phones were for bet taking, and some support for the FBI claim that the informant's word could be trusted. The informant's "meager report," said Justice John Harlan for the majority, "could easily have been obtained from an offhand remark heard at a neighborhood bar." Nor, said the court, does the FBI agent's report make up for the shortcomings in the informant's story...
...Marie A. Capitanio and John A. Kirkpatrick of St. Christopher's Hospital for Children followed deprivation-dwarfism patients over a period of months, carefully comparing X rays of the children's skulls with those of more normal children. They report that the widening sutures are far from being warnings of trouble. While the Philadelphians are still not certain, they believe that the children's widening sutures are being expanded by the youngsters' healthy, growing brains...