Word: utterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language requirement, which calls only for a reading knowledge of some foreign tongue. As a result, the Harvard graduate may dazzle an evening cocktail party with his brilliant remarks on Voltaire's sense of irony or Goethe's treatment of Faust, but he will find himself at an utter loss in the Paris Flea Market or at a Munich Beer-Garden...
...devilishly dangle is nice, And to utter "It's me," my advice. For "Am I Not," I say "Ain't I," "It is not I," say " 'Tain't I," But my diction is clipped and precise...
...utter gloom that followed the vote, the Knowland forces freely predicted that there would be no civil rights legislation this session. Reason: the House, which passed a tough bill 286 to 126, would never agree to the watered-down Senate version. And even if it did, Dwight Eisenhower would be virtually forced to veto it because the four-page, 650-word jury-trial amendment was so loosely drawn that it would devastate the whole legal mechanism for dealing with cases under such laws as antitrust, atomic energy and securities exchange by the accepted injunction and contempt-of-court procedures...
People who uncontrollably utter obscenities may be more sick than sickening. Doctors have long known (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949) that such compulsive cursing, often accompanied by a violent muscular tic, may precede insanity...
...England competition comprised 172 paintings and drawings, and 34 examples of sculpture. The quality of the first category was high, with only four or five pieces of utter trash. The first prize in painting went for some reason to Fannie Hillsmith's "Pink Sofa," with other awards to Justin Curry, Glen Krause, Beverly Hallam, Henrik Mayer, John McClusky and Teal McKibben...