Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between those left for reasons of conscience and those with less idealistic motives or who deserted under fire. However, President Ford's Clemency Board estimated that only one-tenth of one per cent of all deserters left during battles. The government also concedes that interviews with deserters do not reveal true motives, but rather the individual's ability to say what the review board wants to hear. This ability clearly relates to class, race and education...
Officials at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., reveal that the swine flu vaccination is suspected of causing the common cold. But Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services, stands by his plan to go ahead with the third phase of UHS's innoculation plan. Referring to UHS's unused vaccine supplies, Wacker declares, "We've got to use it up somehow...
...nominate the entire Carter family, from the President-elect to Miz Lillian to Miss Amy, from the future First Lady to the brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins who campaigned for Jimmy and who helped reveal to us the kind of President we'll have...
Jacques Chirac is in a hurry. He always has been. Of all the mannerisms that reveal him, perhaps none is more telling to a Frenchman's taste than the way he eats: furiously and fast, raising only the question of how much he savors as he dines...
Elwyn Brooks White was the son of a carpenter, and there are times when the father's profession marks his son's tongue-and-groove sentences. Hardly a word is ever out of place; his postcards can no more be excerpted than his essays. As these letters reveal, White was, like many humorists, a secret sufferer. For most of his adult life, the writer lightly chronicles a series of illnesses and operations: "They got at the bone through my right nostril, which I consider very resourceful, and the morphine was just what I had been needing all along...