Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old from Lansdale, Pa., got his decorations says much about the postrevolution confusion in Iran. On the morning of Feb. 14, six weeks after he joined the 20-member Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, he was just coming off duty when he heard the sound of gunfire. Over his VHF radio he heard someone shout, "They're attacking ... they're coming over the wall!" Grabbing a shotgun, he ran to the commissary, helped lead some U.S. and Iranian staffers to safety, then moved to a nearby restaurant. Bullets smashed the windows, and fists began...
...familiar ring is giving way to the bleep, the buzz and the flash. All are part of the sound-and-light show emanating from the versatile new computer phones that are fast becoming an integral part of the increasingly automated, modern office landscape. The bookkeepers are happy because the new phones save money, but desperate cries of anguish are rising from office workers unable to cope with all that electronic wizardry. Their complaints: being disconnected in midsentence, having a third party break in on a conversation or, worse, not being able to get through at all. Their solution: make...
...convention will be for the purpose of "proposing amendments." But this is a semantic technicality; if the Constitution had read in the singular, it would prohibit conventions from proposing multiple amendments like the Bill of Rights or the Civil War amendments. Ackerman clearly wants to make a convention sound so threatening that no one will desire...
CRIMSON: You sound as dull as your columns...
DEWITT: Oh, yeah--well, he's had the training. He chooses to be inarticulate. Because that's modern man. Does that sound too pretentious...