Word: traced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master carpenter, Heath is a rarity among Tory Prime Ministers: a man who is not a product of one of Britain's select public schools. Heath did, however, attend Oxford's Balliol College, on an organ scholarship. Some acquaintances claim that they can still detect a trace of cockney in his acquired upper-class accent. "His vowels betray him," says a fellow Tory, who recalls that some party members would mimic Heath's peculiar accent behind his back...
...rather than the original resolution. Here is the opening of the faculty resolution: "Each instructor shall allow students the option. . . ." The second sentence concludes: "if any student so requests by May 19, that student shall be graded by the instructor on a pass-fail basis." There is no trace of this "shall" in the second document, where it has been reduced...
With only a trace of opposition, the Faculty yesterday passed the Kilson resolution urging the Corporation to support Campaign GM in the upcoming shareholders proxy fight...
...label of Minimal Art has latched onto Stella's work. He makes enormous paintings-with surfaces as smooth as a car. Flat color without a shadow is neatly placed within ruled or compassed lines so that no trace of the artist's hand remains. He could command a computer to execute it. But a startling combination of geometrical forms makes his pictures look different from the other Minimal Artists...
...Cantabrian ports under a steely drizzle, the boats lie abandoned, as if it were a night of atomic catastrophe. Now 30 million people clench their jaws and trace terrible right-hand uppercuts in their mind's eye. A farmer near Cestona is said to have wagered he will eat his motorcycle tires should the challenger fail...