Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times, the mayor magnified incidents to bolster his case. What would they do, he asked reporters, if someone tried to blind the man standing next to them by hurling oven cleaner? Though oven cleaner may have been used as a weapon by a few protesters, it was not the standard equipment that Daley and others implied. By the police department's own count, only five of 198 injuries to police could have been caused by spray in the face...
Clearly, some of the competitors would have been better off at sea level. In the 10,000 meters, for example, none of the first three finishers even man aged to equal the Olympic qualifying standard. But in most of the other events, the thin air was obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year...
President Pusey last winter told students angry with Harvard's silence on the Vietnam War, that the University collectively takes political stands only when threatened. 1968-69 may be the year when even by that cautious standard, Harvard can no longer afford political neutrality...
From a suite in the opulent Standard Club, a businessman's retreat near
...language that explodes with comic-book words like "POW!" and "boing." His sentences are shot with ellipses, stabbed with exclamation points, or bombarded with long lists of brand names and anatomical terms. He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese. His outlook is partly cool, partly hysterical, and just slightly unconventional enough to make it provocative. The need for journalists like Wolfe is clear, and he has become the most talked about, the most imitated, if not the most bewildering journalist of the '60s. Wolfe...