Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information, said the decision, would turn a reporter "into an investigative agent of the Government." The decision applied only to Caldwell, in the light of his special relationship to the Panthers and the secrecy of the grand jury proceedings. But the Ninth Circuit Court has at least limited the scope of the Government's investigative power. Not binding on any other circuit court, the decision nevertheless sets a powerful precedent...
Each person to accept as his unavoidable duty educating himself and others about the scope of the governments crimes in Asia. Everyone who opposes the war should learn as much as possible about it and should demand that our newspapers and broadcasting networks end their self-imposed censorship on the government's actions in Southeast Asia...
...Chose, machin, chouette [thingamabob, thingamajig, whosit] are being replaced by chouette, machin, chose." He often referred to members of the National Assembly as pisse froid or pisse vinaigre. In private, he often called France "vacharde"-inert or uninspired. The fact was that France offered De Gaulle too limited a scope and power base. Try as he might, he could not change the basic reality that France simply lacked the specific gravity to offset the force of a superpower...
Heavy Breathing. But Lean has opted for bombast rather than character development, scope instead of dramatic tension. The time is 1916, and Britain's thin red line of empire is being besieged on two sides by the Boches and the Irish Republican Army. Rosy is a willful, discontented lass who scorns the bumptious town boys and chooses by default the widowed, middle-aged teacher. Shaughnessy warns her: "I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows meself." They marry anyway, and her wedding night is your standard virgin...
...English rock opera, Jesus Christ, Superstar, released last week in the U.S. on an 87-minute, two-LP album by Decca. As a musical retelling of the seven last days in Christ's life, it rivals the St. John and St. Matthew Passions of Bach-in ambition and scope if not in piety or musical exaltation...