Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quick as the wind that often stirred the banana trees with utter ferocity in his home town, where his favorite horse had died an alcoholic death, the smart copper jumped on the thief just as the sinister individual was about to ride off on his faithful vehicle...
...first impression they get in Moscow, say newsmen who have served there, is a sense of utter isolation. They live in a foreign ghetto; they see mostly fellow reporters; they make the rounds of embassy receptions that yield little information. They prefer not to use their tapped telephones for interviews. And they would be better advised to write a letter to anyone they want to see. They may not leave Moscow without permission. After trying various ploys, one reporter explained that he wanted to visit Odessa to see the sunrise. In due course, the reply came back: "The sunrise...
...Wolfe calls California the most American states Certainly the socio-economic trends that have been sweeping the state in the postwar year--vast urban sprawl, a sublimation of ethnic and class differences, an utter dependence on the automobile--have foreshadowed what is happening in the rest of the country...
...elders. They saw the African in his primitive state when they first settled in Rhodesia and cannot quite conceive of him now as ruling the country. An example of this was my sister's bringing an African girl friend from school home for the weekend, to the utter astonishment of my parents.This farm is located in the hilly eastern highlands of Rhodesia. The weather throughout the year is like summer in Maine...
...safe at a camp outside the city, reacted predictably: "It is a shame for one of the most powerful armies in the world to have gone into the city in time of peace when they could not have done it during the war." In fact, he was alive to utter such bunkum only because the OAS had prevented the loyalists from smashing his 1,400-man force...