Word: siftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Learning Vietnamese is appropriately perplexing. With its six distinct tonal levels, it is as hard to master as the country's current politics and history. To sift through the grammar is easy enough but the tonal business is frustrating. One word may have two, three, or even four completely different meanings depending upon the pitch and stress you use. There is a well-known and true story of Robert McNamara's difficulty with the language on his frequent visits to Saigon. He likes to make a small pleasantry to his Vietnamese audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately his aides...
Eventually, things will sift out and settle down. Most likely the quad system will have more appeal than the University clubs and it will involve nearly everyone at Princeton. Financial pressures should wipe out most private clubs. A few of them will remain, however, and the situation in about five years will resemble that at Harvard and Yale...
Elliott Perkins '23, head tutor of the department, said last night that he would meet with the 60 History tutors "two or three times, sift the issues out and then come back to the Senior Faculty...
TIME's growth?its circulation in 1938 had reached 822,670?had its effects on both the magazine and the country. From more or less a pastepot operation in which its writers clipped from newspapers and magazines to sift and organize the news, TIME developed its own news service (its first Washington stringer: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.), began to be served by the press associations, built up a morgue and reference library, and increasingly depended on its writers' own knowledge for special information and judgments. It also lost some of its early brashness?though not its freshness?as the times...
...took twelve days of tangled, often tedious testimony to sift through the evidence. Then at week's end the jury of six men and six women filed out of the District of Columbia U.S. Courthouse's overheated Courtroom 21 to begin their deliberations on Bobby Baker's fate. Baker firmly denied the accusations embodied in his nine-count federal indictment for larceny, tax evasion and fraud. He did, however, admit to one piece of chicanery. Returning to the witness stand before the defense rested its case, the former Senate Democratic secretary once again invoked Old Friend Lyndon...