Word: se
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broken English, Kitten soon turns out to be a lot smarter and pleasanter than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force per se." Kitten, however, knows this liberty cabbage for the sauerkraut it is: "Extorshun . . . jes like...
...Russian-built tanks barked their welcome, the bearded Cuban gave the slim Algerian rebel a mighty abrazo and then led him to the microphones. Said Castro: "To make this visit at a time when the powerful Yankee empire has redoubled its hostility against our country ... is, on your part, Señor Premier, an act of courage and a gesture we shall never forget...
...should never be said that all monopolies are bad per se. Agencies to sell beer mugs, banners, and class rings are natural monopolies concessions, into the proper province of HSA. But the late-evening snack is decidedly sinister. By a pre-HSA ruling of the Committee on Solicitations no delivery men or solicitors are permitted in the Yard or the Houses after dark. The same ruling made an exception for the student sandwich vendors with the little wagons and loud voices. Pizza could also be delivered at night, it was decreed, but only by students. Today the student vendors...
Captain Robert Se'mer, 40, of Falls Church, Va., a Navy jet pilot, was walking with two companions along 47th Street near Third Avenue one evening when a high wind whipped a plank from a nearby building under construction. The plank crashed down on him and severed his right...
Thirsty for anti-social art, they have assumed that a hundred different meanings for a hundred different people are per se an artistic value. Bosley Crowther, well-suited to a supporting role in The Emperor's New Clothes, picks up the chant and after that you can't tell the tabloids from the suave cinema quarterlies without a pretty damn good scorecard...