Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From one point of view Mr. Wallace would be making a mistake by offering specific remedies. It is a political axiom that, if he expects to attract large following, a politician must offer only the most general kind of program, to which various individuals can give their own interpretations. So long as Mr. Wallace attacks Administration policy, without proposing a particular alternative, he can appeal to all those who share his disapproval of the course currently being followed by the government. Once he offers a detailed program of his own, he will retain the support only of those who happen...
Yard police were unaware of any subversive activity until a phone call informed them of the paint-and-poster attack. Several student night-owis reported seeing a car containing four students at various points along Mill Street...
Crimson A and B squads spent a full hour trying out various defenses against a Yardling eleven which operated from Buff Donelli's winged-T formation. Severa! sizable gains, two for apparent touchdowns, indicated the need for more practice against Boston University plays...
...Infantile paralysis is often confused with other nervous-system disorders (e.g., various forms of meningitis). Researchers now suspect that a 1934 "polio" epidemic of 2,055 cases in Los Angeles was incorrectly diagnosed, and a supposed polio outbreak in Delaware this summer, which had almost no crippling effects, may not have been polio...
Conrad was a master not only of English words but of various devices of storytelling, including what Mr. Zabel describes as "a complicated exercise of the mode of averted suspense"-enough so to drive his fascinated reader, at times, nearly to distraction. In its progression, elaboration and somber irony, his prose rarely loses for long the immediate visual impact of phrases such as the one describing Kurtz, emaciated yet commanding, sitting up to harangue the natives in Heart of Darkness: "I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving...