Word: verbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Private Ear and The Public Eye-two thematically related one-acters by Peter Shaffer, author of Five Finger Exercise (Oct. 9). Eric Portman stars in a British sex comedy called All in Good Time (Nov. 23). And Claudette Colbert and Cyril Ritchard open Sept. 18 in The Irregular Verb to Love, about a sweet London lady who keeps blowing up furrier shops because she loves animals...
busters, nabs, fuzz, Charlie Goons, Charlie Nebs, blue boys, bluebirds, do-right daddies. Policemen. shoe. Plainclothes detective. snifter. Police dog. rosewood. Policeman's nightclub. fall. Prison term. charge account. Bail bondsman. woogy. Quarrel (verb). gin time. Time to fight. But life is not all sorrow: fox, flavor. Pretty girl. ace boon coon. Girl friend or buddy. short. Automobile. ragtop. Convertible. stallion. A man who is handsome or husky or prosperous; also, a buxom woman...
...Caesar's own account, his mother was alive when he was 48 years old. Other popular explanations: if a Roman woman died pregnant, the operation was required by the emperor's law-Lex Caesarea-thus a caesarean section. Or the name may be derived from the Latin verb caedere...
Through it all, Sam spiegeled-a verb which has a special meaning for anyone who has worked for him. It means to soothe, cajole, or con another; a talking-out-of, a sleight-of-mouth operation. During the six months the Lawrence crew spent in the desert, many a worker cracked, more from Sam-than sun-strain. A typical mutineer's speech: "I'm through. I've had it. I quit. I'm going to tell Sam he can take his bleeding, bloody picture and shove it. I'm getting out of here...
...fiber bundles or Spanish verb endings in the fourteenth century are your greatest joy in life, who is to say that you should spend your time on merely temporal activities? Out of respect, we will not contend with such as you (though we wonder how you know fiber bundles or Spanish verbs are the greatest joy without having tried anything else). But if you think experience offers a plurality of joys, if you have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand...