Word: utters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing, he has generated a furious debate between those who regard his opponents as so many patsies and those who see him as "a Titan," "a Hercules," a larger-than-life hero who is miraculously real. Intensifying the "hurricanes of polemic," as one sportswriter puts it, is Urtain's utter lack of finesse as a boxer. He is as unpolished as the stones he used to lift, a slugger who at every outing shows a pervasive ignorance of his trade's finer points. Basically, he is a swarming, dervish-like flailer who leaves ringside observers arguing about which...
...order to gauge the full meaning of "repression," it may be necessary to examine, not the particular repression of the conspiracy defendants, but rather the political and social climate which surrounded their trial. It was the war in Victnam, for example, and the utter inflexibility of the "electoral" system which upholds the war, which engendered the original protest and made it successful; the repressive effect which the war has had on society may be viewed in rising taxes for "defense" spending, an inflationary economy which has actually lowered purchasing power and spread poverty in America during the past five years...
With a Jagger-like twang and a positive repulsion against pronouncing any word in its entirety. Morrison sings, shouts, croons and yodels his way through the album. Some lines immediately imprint themselves on your memory, but they are often juxtaposed with utter banality or nonsense syllables to finish out the lines he never quite wrote. Somehow he manages to make this unoffensive, and even likeable...
...Japan's desired goal of political and economic hegemony over the area from the Kuriles to Australia, which triggered the Pacific war, was thwarted by the industrial superiority of America. To have challenged a vast materially and financially endowed nation was an act of utter desperation. It's now emerging that Japan is being asked by the U.S. to share the defense responsibility over the same area that the Land of the Rising Sun coveted over a quarter-century ago [March...
...example, being challenged by mingling with high school seniors. No marks are given. Instead, teachers write an evaluation of each student's work. For the most part, attendance is not compulsory. Informality and responsibility are emphasized. Students can smoke in class, call teachers by their first names, and utter four-letter words without inhibition...