Word: taker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...epena and ama asita trees, epena is administered through a blowpipe. The tripster puts one end of the pipe to his nostril, and a helper gives a full-lunged blast that sends the snuff deep into the nasal passages. At first reeling and retching from the impact, the snuff taker soon straightens up, begins to strut, emits an occasional laugh or yell, and slaps his thighs in selfesteem. Evidently, the Waika on epena experiences what the psychiatrists call macropsia: in his eyes everything is enormously magnified, including himself. He sees gigantic animals and birds. He feels...
...enormous noise of silence has followed the ideological clamor of the '30s. But Dos Passos can now be regarded as an essential historian of an era-not a great novelist but a greater taker of notes playing the unwelcome role of a man who repeats things that others have said and would rather forget. It may seem old hat today, but it is a hat that many Americans have worn. Dos Passos may well claim to have been consistent in the oldfashioned, cranky Yankee way of distrusting all ideologies, of resisting all managerial systems that claim to improve...
...CHARITY. As Toulouse-Lautrec memorialized the cancan girls of Pans, Director Bob Fosse celebrates the taxi dancers of New York with stylish staging and sophisticated choreography. Owen Verdon is a terpsichorean tornado as a gal who has a lot of love to give-if she could only find a taker...
Motor launches took questionnaires to lonely lighthouses at Neptune and Thistle Islands and along the Great Barrier Reef, while on the equatorial Australian-trust island of New Ireland, Census Taker Douglas Fyfe, normally a schoolteacher, set up shop beside a flooded river to interview rubber-plantation workers. Four men drowned in a swamped boat as they tried to reach Fyfe, but he counted them anyway, since they had been alive 30 hours earlier on the census deadline...
...this supposed change in the Republican image--from that of care-taker to that of energetic and informed statesman -- that inspires the feeling that Republicans can now win without downplaying the party. GOP leaders feel that their task is to protect and strengthen this new-found positive identity. Thus, they would have been especially embarrassed by an inability to present a full slate of candidates to their fellow Republicans in the September primary. A lack of candidates would have been a sure sign that the vote-getting power of the Republican image is still slight...