Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bumper stickers said, but it does seem that she will soon become a divorcee. Confirming longstanding rumors, Julie Andrews, 32, filed suit in Santa Monica, Calif., for divorce from English Stage Designer Tony Walton, 33, her husband since 1959. In a formal statement more notable for brevity than syntax, Julie explained that "the varying demands of our careers have kept Tony and I apart, placing obvious strains upon our marriage." Another obvious strain, Director (The Pink Panther) Blake Edwards, 45, has recently acquired his own divorce, and will presumably be at hand when Julie's decree becomes final...
...Syntax Soldier. The shelling was an ominous interlude in the Vice President's three-day swing through South VietNam, a tour of syntax soldiering that found Humphrey at his ebullient best. Traveling by armed Huey helicopter, C-118 transport, Jeep, limousine and shanks' mare, the Vice President-who bore the code name Northwest-coursed from the Delta to the Demilitarized Zone on a threefold mission...
Gesticulating, thumping the lectern and mangling his syntax, the usually supersmooth Ronald Reagan faced a packed audience of newsmen in Sacramento, Calif., last week to quash a columnist's accusation that his administration had harbored a "homosexual ring." He was only partially successful...
...that will lad them in a desert island. My friend had found an ingenious solution: he reads to his class the most outrageous speeches of Pattakos and the rest of the junta, thus exposing them to silent ridicule; any extra time is used to analyze the grammar and syntax of the speeches...
...most encouraging notes of the visit came when Kiesinger spoke at a National Press Club luncheon. Said he: "We no longer look upon the United States as the big brother to whom one comes running as soon as something goes wrong." If the syntax was Germanic, the sentiment was distinctly and hopefully Atlantic...