Word: shall
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...abuse and careless use of language have been going on for a long time; witness the stern biblical warnings such as the one in Matthew 12: 36: "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Yet the risks of biased words to the unwary must be greater today, in an epoch of propagandizing amplified by mass communications. "Never," Aldous Huxley said, "have misused words-those hideously efficient tools of all the tyrants, warmongers, persecutors and heresy hunters-been so widely and disastrously influential." In the two decades since that warning...
...sovereignty over the islands, which Argentines call the Malvinas (after the 18th century colonists who settled there from the French village of St. Malo). The British task was by far the harder one, yet Foreign Secretary Francis Pym sounded as firm as ever when he declared that "we shall do whatever necessary to end [the Argentines'] unlawful occupation. Our resolve remains undiminished...
...part of a larger study Professor Diamond is undertaking) quotes from numerous FBI documents (obtained under the Freedom of Information Act) that strongly suggest University cooperation with the FBI document "It appears that Dean (McGeorge) Bundy is insisting that former Communist Party members, who now have Harvard Corporation appointments, shall proside the Federal Bureau of Investigation a full and complete account of their activities in the Communist Party, and shall at the same time identify all individuals known to them as participation in activities of the of the Communist Party and its related front organizations...
...what is already a less than absolute commitment seems now to be threatened by a new requirement that disabled students list eight classes this spring from which they will choose next fall. In a memorandum to disabled students. Crooks says that "we shall face even greater difficulties than usual in accommodating the special needs of handicapped students. "Some students fear that language like this will return to haunt them in the fall, if they want to ask for a course that isn't on the list...
...photographs, purported to record the unspoken questionings of the People; America Was Promises urged the same People to demand their rights ("Listen! Brothers! . . ./ Companions of leaves: of the sun"). These symphonic musings inspired Edmund Wilson to malicious parody: "And the questions and/ Questions/ questioning What am I? O/ What shall I/ remember? . . ./ Till the hearer cried:/ 'If only MacLeish could remember if only could...