Word: restedness
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OVER the past 47 years, the flag of the U.S. has appeared 63 times on the cover of TIME. It embellished a portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1942; it provided a backdrop for General Mark Clark in 1946; it rested in the hands of Astronaut Neil Armstrong as...
With the burden of proof thus on the petitioner, trials have dragged on for years. One virginal wife in Italy, charging that her marriage had never been consummated by her impotent husband, found that her case rested on the intactness of her hymen. Her only recourse, through six years of...
In the period of his rapid rise he told a friend of mine in Appleton that he had first glimpsed the secret of political success by reading Mein Kampf. Hitler's technique, he said, rested on the skillful use of the big lie. Tell a whopper and keep on repeating...
HUNTLEY wanted to find the octopus. He found a braingray sac pressed into a corner of stone and glass, with a sad, small eye looking directly at him. The octopus looked like a corpulent ghost: but I suppose that a motionless, eight-handed beast isn't necessarily sad or pensive...
The decision to override the sense of the May 10 mass meeting, a purposefully dramatic move that was met with reactions that varied from "it's about time" to pure outrage (someone called us a miniature Committee of Public Safety), rested on a number of assumptions. First and foremost, we...