Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation from deteriorating. He announced that "strong young men and women from the schools, the churches, the union halls and the block clubs" will be recruited as a volunteer back-up force for the police. The city will seek more juvenile judges and a new county jail. It will request authority for judges, rather than state social workers, to incarcerate juvenile offenders. A 40-member economic-growth council will be formed to help ease "the crushing burden of unemployment." Earlier, Young had declared, "I want the pimps, prostitutes, gangs and youth rovers off the streets. We're going...
There were parties for every state delegation, though the outlanders' tastes occasionally caught local hostesses unprepared. "I thought we had stocked the bar with everything," said Mrs. Joseph Bruening, who invited 200 Arizonans to a poolside party, "but the first drink request was for Scotch and milk. There wasn't a drop of milk in the house, so we gave her Scotch and half-and-half and hoped she didn't notice...
...reach his floor manager, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, seated at a command post in the convention's Kemper Arena. Griffin, in turn, would direct eleven regional whips on the floor and key Ford operatives in every delegation. Any slippage in expected voting patterns would lead to a quick request to poll the offending delegation, giving the Ford men tune to try to close the breach...
...necessarily the child's natural mother, but someone who acts as "vicar" of the adult community.) Every word the vicar uses is a lesson in what sounds and tones work best. By the age of two months, the child can make a cry that demands or one that requests, i.e., one that awaits a response from the mother. "Mother talk," corresponding to "baby talk," tells the child that its request will be met and gives the child signs of the consequences of his requests. Says Bruner: "Linguistic competence is developing before language proper...
...request of you and the President, I developed the current master plan for the evolution of Continuing Education programs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and obviously I support the major outlines fully. I will continue to help in those endeavors in any way the Director of Continuing Education and you find useful...