Word: representation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On state agricultural problems, he reminds California farmers that they produce 25% of the U.S.'s table food, offer 33% of the state's jobs, represent 70% of the state's cash transactions. Yet, he remarks, "Farmers are being forced to conduct a social-welfare experiment for...
Oblique Allusions. Independent and stubborn, Brigitte was soon steering her own course, combining something of the totemic power of Moore with the welding techniques of Pevsner. In 1959 she received Paris' coveted Prix Bour-delle from a jury that included Giacometti, Arp, Lipchitz and Moore, went on to represent...
The ultimate economic goal for Negroes is full equality. From the point of view of employment I interpret this to mean that Negro workers are represented close to proportionately in the major occupations and professions. Of course, it does not require that Negroes represent exactly the same percentage in every...
Carmichael would be the last to approve of their plans. From what he said on his speaking tour of Boston, REP would represent for him the epitome of what Roxbury needs least: a bunch of white college students projecting the wrong image on young Negro students.
Random House can also rightfully claim that although its words are fewer, many are newer. It includes such current terms as the Yiddish chutzpa ("unmitigated effrontery or impudence"), ye-ye ("of, pertaining to, or characteristic of young sophisticates"), and even Mary Poppins' supercalifragilisticexpi-alidocious ("used as a nonsense word...