Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were held today, Field's California Poll indicated, the Democratic educator would trounce incumbent Republican Max Rafferty, a hard-lining conservative, for state Superintendent of Public Instruction. Hayakawa could also provide a strong challenge to Republican Senator George Murphy when the former song-and-dance man seeks a second term next year. Only Governor Ronald Reagan seems safe...
...also, inadvertently, Toumliline's passport to fame. When Morocco became independent in 1956, several of the prisoners that Toumliline had helped became members of the new government. One of them, Driss M'hammedi, remained the second most powerful man in the country, next to King Hassan II, until his death two months ago. In 1957, a high Moslem official went so far as to call Toumliline "a lesson and a school, a center for cohabitation between Christian and Moslem." It became a meeting place for international conferences between Moslems and Christians. King Hassan exulted in "the climate...
...identity-that A is A, or a rose is a rose. In fact, argued Korzybski, the basic principle of life is not identity but, as the elliptical pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus put it, that all is change. Time and movement are inexorable, and in the fraction of a second that a rose is described it has already begun to alter...
...second philosophical conviction is that language influences behavior. Mankind is much less aware of the implacable reality of change simply because his language is dominated by the verb "to be," which implies a static quality of illusory permanence. "Our language," says Bourland, "remains the language of absolutes. The chief offender remains the verb 'to be.' The spurious identity it so readily connotes perverts our perception of reality...
...Daniel entered politics in 1938 by running for Governor on a platform that included the Ten Commandments and mother love; he stumped the state singing his theme song, Pass the Biscuits, Pappy - and won by a landslide. Though he was inept as Governor, Texans gave him a second term, then sent him to the Senate after a primary battle in which he defeated Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson...