Word: sic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Somewhere there's mu-u-u-sic, how high the moon?" sang the twelve voices of Mary Ford, while Les Paul furiously strummed what sounded like a million electric guitars. From 1948 to 1953, their "new sound" sold millions of hit recordings such as Tennessee Waltz and Mockin'bird Hill. While rock 'n' roll eventually knocked them off the top of the platter heap, the electronically blended couple remained a TV and nightclub attraction. But alas, after 14 years of marriage, there was no mu-u-u-sic somewhere. Mary is now suing for separate maintenance...
...paragraph. I stated that more people were taking drugs out of boredom with what the society gives them. I cited the mass media as throwing shit from a barrel at them in the form of entertainment. As this statement came out in your paper it could be interrpreted [sic] as meaning all people us [sic] drugs out of boredom. It would not do to leave you with this low impression of drug users or drugs. All kinds of people use drugs for all kinds of reasons. May they continue to do so without injury from the narcotic bureau's [sic...
...talk took up the question of America's hypocritical pose of piety and purity, I have no choice but to protest the editorial alchemy of transforming shit into manure. It is this kind of little scratch that leads each person into the gangrene of corruption that so permeats [sic] our newspapers and our politics. Thank you. Leonard Glaser
...giving representative quotes from the students themselves. The quotes they choose are not very helpful. Too often they simply step off the deep end philosophically ("The Catholic at Harvard runs certain risks... Harvard is really all the risks of life itself" or grammatically ("Theologically it reduces to illogism [sic] and even worse claptrap"). Their entertainment value is high--from a Radcliffe sophomore, "I was a member of a minority group for the first time, and I loved it"-- but they provide no real insight into the Catholic mind at Harvard...
...Andrews University hereby offer (sic) Harvard University a challenge to organize a similar 55-mile walk... the university which has the greater number of finishers to be declared...