Word: smocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evangelist George "Jed" Smock yesterday urged Harvard students to seek God "before it's too late...
...Smock, speaking from the steps of Memorial Church, told a passing crowd that now is the time "to get with...
...woman of arty ways and means, Dior's delineators were at the ready with a painter's smock...
...Terrified that new X-ray pictures would show her chronic condition to be getting worse, she lay rigidly on the examining table, her eyes brimming with tears. But she began to smile when Dr. Armand Brodeur, the hospital's chief of radiology, entered the room dressed in a smock covered with pictures of Snoopy and other characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Using the time-honored gestures of the magician to assure her that his hands were empty, Brodeur reached down and pulled a cotton ball from the child's ear, then made it disappear up his sleeve...
...worst, in Steiner is the most prestigious specialist in linguistics today, Noam Chomsky. Steiner, with romance in his heart and the ultimate language of poetry on his lips, approaches linguistics on his knees. Chomsky, full of crisp talk about "data handling" and "feedback," confronts language in a white smock-the scientist of semantics. "Is there, in fact, a 'linguistic science'?" Steiner asks, arguing that the new scientific dogmatism about speech ignores the "mystery" of language...