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...words listed below in sentences that will illustrate their respective meanings: incoherent, dietary, punitive, travesty, succinct, insurgent, malcontent, and divest...
...Your succinct editorial in the issue of December 1 on the present urge to substitute morality for information in education is a tremendous tribute to whatever institutions have contributed to your present attainments...
Prime Minister Sidney Holland, searching his vocabulary for a succinct description of an opposing Labor Party argument, last week thought he had exactly the right word. He blurted it out: "Piffle." He was promptly interrupted by Speaker Matthew Oram, who said sternly: "The Right Honorable gentleman must withdraw...
...actual count, this cab driver (or his female counterpart, an anonymous scrubwoman) has been quoted 34 times in the past six months. He never yet has failed to comprehend both the broad picture and the significant detail behind each story, and his succinct wisdom is beautifully quotable. I haven't been able to figure out his nationality. Sometimes he is a shrugging Frenchman, frequently a shrewd but likable Cockney. In the Nov. 12 issue he is an analytical Swede ("the only thing that puzzles me is how could a simple Navy N.C.O. get access to so many top secrets...
Kudos for a brave, succinct July 30 report of Santo Domingo groaning under Dictator Trujillo. I was in Port-au-Prince in 1938 when I heard of the incredible butchery of innocent Haitians ... I viewed the remains of hundreds of slain men, women and children at the uncharted Haiti-Santo Domingo border...