Word: true
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...February 21, 1822--that auspicious day sandwiched between the official Washington's Birthday and the true date of Washington's birth--a scientist named Gibbs was born. Though he was not Gibbs-the-scientist, who garnered fame for his free energy equation, this Gibbs also achieved notoriety. This was the Wolcott Gibbs of the Gibbsians, a little known cult of fanatics not unlike the Moonies...
Until some method of holding a true referendum--not one that restricts blacks to a choice between absolute or modified white domination--Zimbabwe seems doomed to continued struggle. At least 8500 people, mostly black, have already died in Rhodesia; it would be tragic if the whites' continued refusal to permit open elections led to further bloodshed--which, at the moment, seems inevitable...
...words and subjects--all that is 'said'--there is more truly 'revealed.' A disheartening monotony pervades the fresh editions of criticism, the flashy or clever works of fiction, the slim volumes of poetry, the exposes, the tracts of pop culture, etc. The majority of these bear no stamp of true originality, and seem destined for tired and dated shelf space, intellectual curiosities to some future generation...
This is not true. According to the British Survey of Palestine in 1946, "...more than 70 per cent was state land," claimed by whatever conqueror held sway at the time. Who else has the right to this deserted land if not the Jews who returned to rebuild it, after 6000 of them sacrificed their lives in a war thrust upon them by the Arabs...
...This trend is true of college-educated women in general," Riesman said, adding that demographers do not know whether these women will have children later in life...