Word: sophistication
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sophist. In Minneapolis, after he was ticketed for parking in a truck zone, Motorist Andy Veres argued in traffic court that he was only half guilty since part of his car projected into a legal parking area, persuaded Judge Tom Bergin to cut his $5 fine...
...pious man, no sophist, of simple origin and sympathies, no snob; he is neutral by dint of his small country's powerlessness, but his political ideology is that of the West. "Burma and America are in the same boat-we fight the same evils," he once declared. And although he was awed and impressed by Red China during his recent visit to Peking, U Nu did not shrink from publicly proclaiming to Mao: "Americans are a very generous and brave people...
Meanwhile, in Cambridge, the bird's former roost-mates began a frantle search for the stray sophist. Several were seen lurking near city pumpkin plots (the bird lives on pumpkin seeds) with purse nets...