Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign sets an alltime record for verbiage. Small wonder that with so much talk flooding the ether, the words sometimes get mixed up and Candidate A sounds like his opponent Candidate B, and Candidate C sounds like both. As proof of the theorem, here is a simple test: Match the candidates and their words...
...sometime thing. The French do not even have a word for it. In Japan, speakers were once measured by their ability to stare protesters down, but heckling has become rare since World War II. Heckling is most common in Britain, where it is something of an art, designed to test a speaker's combativeness and quickness of wit. Appropriately, the word comes from the Middle English "hekele," to tease or comb flax, or broadly "to tease with questions...
...made of plastic and topped with a flexible cap fitted with luglike projections. The lugs fit snugly into notches in the neck of the container. To open one, an adult must press downward with the palm, then twist the cap open while the lugs are free. In recent tests, few children could do this, even when they saw jelly beans inside. Of 1,000,000 of the Palm-N'-Turn containers tested in Ontario, Canada, only 21 caps were pried free, and 18 of the 21 had been improperly locked by parents. In the Fort Lewis and McChord...
...true test of the extent of student unrest at Wisconsin will come tonight when SDS tries to keep the Student Union open for discussions throughout the night. The University has increased its police force in order to cope with student demonstrations and tonight's Union confrontation will be the first time that the University has met student protest head...
There's just no getting around it; we simply have to have more doctors, more doctors who spend most of their time with people and not test tubes. But American society, in a self-defeating way became too typical lately, has not only failed to build more medical schools, but has created a situation where it is increasingly difficult for that sort of doctor to get into the medical schools we do have...