Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since the judges for the American Heritage's dictionary have decreed the death penalty for all who use like as a conjunction [Aug. 22], a hangman's noose would have been the appropriate end for Elyot, Shakespeare, Smollett, Southey, Newman, Washington Irving, Darwin and William Morris (of Morris chair fame, not the dictionary's editor). Edmund Spenser should perhaps have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members...
...admiriigly: "He doesn't look that old, does he?" Then they were off in a motorcade of golf carts. As the party split, with Nixon and Johnson heading for the executive-office complex and the rest turning off to the presidential villa, Nixon called to Luci: "You can use the pool if you want. And my surfboard. I never use that...
...little solitude. Mike Mansfield is an example. "He leaves for the Senate at 6:30 every morning, and he stays till he puts the cat out," says his wife. "We don't have any kind of weekend or country place because we'd never have time to use...
...Both in the U.S., where there are 4,000 contemplative nuns, and in Europe, especially in The Netherlands, changes have been under way in many communities ever since Vatican II. Though Rome has only now approved the installation of television sets within the cloisters (it had hitherto authorized limited use of radios and newspapers), most of the 51 cloistered communities in The Netherlands already have TV. Most have also removed the bars that used to separate them from visitors; some even welcome Calvinist ministers and their congregations for debates. Though the Vatican has urged communities to become self-supporting through...
...little guy who might otherwise cave in," says William E. Dunn, executive director of the A.G.C. Labor Secretary George Shultz has been meeting since May with Harvard Economist John Dunlop and other experts to explore ways to contain construction costs. Shultz hopes to induce contractors and construction unions to use the Federal Mediation Service frequently to smooth over their disputes before they erupt into costly strikes. Within the Nixon Administration, there is also discussion of legislation to limit the power of local unions to balk at settlements agreed to by their international unions-a prime source of trouble in construction...