Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take U.S. intelligence so long to reach a not so remarkable conclusion? The intelligence did not seem to be faulty so much as underused. Explained Ray Cline, former Deputy Director for Intelligence of the CIA and now executive director for studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It's one of the really great intelligence problems: where to put your talent and your time." In recent years, intelligence has concentrated on the areas of greatest concern: the Middle East and SALT. Given higher priority in Washington, the Soviets could have been detected much sooner...
Political seismographs throughout the U.S. have long been tuned to record any tremor signaling the quake that would rock the presidential campaign of 1980: the entrance of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy into the race. Last week the Kennedy-watch instruments detected rumblings that made a party-rending announcement seem ever more likely, if not imminent...
Gorski resigned under pressure form the dissatisfied police; after a one year search the administration hired Saul L. Chafin betting that a change in the leadership would make the changes in the department more palatable. The odds seem to have played in its favor. Though Chafin has made questionable decisions in firing three men since he became number one, he has also taken pains to replace them so as to avoid any charges of intentional reductions in the force...
Oral literature throve in Ancient Greece and, less celbratedly among the ancient Celts and Mesopotamians, and even among some modern-day Yugoslavs. Harvard's lecture halls, with their crowds of literate students, would not seem fertile territory for this genre...
...painlessly introduced literally thousands of hard-to-impress gut-seekers and science concentrators to Homer's muse and the other folk tales studied in the course. Many of them seem...