Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I first taught high school boys in New Orleans in 1935, I too was struck by what I thought was a Canarsie accent. The boys with the "tough accent" were mainly natives of the New Orleans "Irish Channel." As one of them recited to me after class: "They say in spring the boid is on the wing. My woid! How absoid! The wing is on the boid...
...must remember the fact that the U.S. has global responsibilities that cannot be torn up like a draft card. To Richard Nixon, the M-day protest must seem especially unfair. He has tried hard to settle the war, and he worked out a plan of de-escalation that earlier?say, in the last phase of the Johnson Administration?would have satisfied many war critics. He has at least succeeded in scaling down the war. Some troops have been withdrawn, the draft has been reduced and casualties have been drastically cut. Last week's report was of 64 U.S. dead...
...opposite side of the argument is that culture itself is genetic-that is, hereditary. "What I am trying to say," explains the author, "is that what people call social behavior always has a biological basis. The character of individuals, families, groups, classes, nations -right underneath these things are the biological foundations." Biological evolution has not been replaced by cultural evolution; it is actually responsible...
That is nearly as high as hens (.9), which forge their chains of command in a way that has become a behavioral cliché-the pecking order. But it was accomplished in considerably less time than chickens normally take. The applications seem endless: say, in replenishing command vacancies in governments and armies, in selecting the properly submissive evening companion from a cocktail-party crowd or in determining ahead of time whether you or your opponent is likely to have the upper hand in a debate...
...fact that we do have a positive result indicates the need for further investigation of its effects." Dr. Verrett accused the FDA of dragging its feet, pointing out that her conclusions were very firm almost a year ago and that they had been communicated to higher officials. "Dr. Ley says that at this point in time, cyclamates are safe," she argued. "I say the safety of cyclamates has not been established scientifically...