Word: synonyms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this "progressive Republicanism" is a synonym for sound thought about international affairs, Advance could profit much from publishing more of it. It can scarcely, however, continue to call its odd political foam either vigorous or dynamic; there is no vigor in it, and therefore still no easily acceptable excuse for Advance's existence...
...imagistic" approach to foreign affairs has inherent dangers. First, there is no necessary connection between a nation's policy and the stereotypes (a less modish synonym) that its citizens believe: assuming there is such a connection may lead one to either foolishly convert one's own policy into ineffective propaganda, or to try to assuage by dangerous connections a nation whose enemies attitude is actually maintained mere by the hostile propaganda of its own government than by the present injustice of ours. The assumption that Images are the spurs of policy may also create such misconceptions as the one (expressed...
...generally happens in rear-end automobile collisions; these annually result in thousands of cases of alleged neck injury. Yet standard medical dictionaries do not even mention whiplash, and in the District of Columbia's Medical Annals, Washington Surgeon Francis D. Threadgill insists that it is usually only a synonym for "malingering and self-delusion...
Playwright Levitt has made good use of two strong natural assets: a stormy trial, always a virtual synonym for lively theater, and one of the great mass-horror stories of history. Upon these he has raised, with frequently discernible modern overtones, a large moral problem of guilt. Well acted under Jose Ferrer's uninhibited staging, the play offers an evening that has much in its favor in both theme and treatment. It has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...