Word: vigilante
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Much is changing. Though more vigilant observation might have detected it long before, a major revelation occurred in 1957, when New York state police happened upon a meeting of the Commission and its lieutenants at the estate of Joseph Barbara in upstate Apalachin. The authorities were able to find out...
The panelists were not paid; most regarded the job as more fun than work. Their findings were carefully considered by the editors; in more than 600 definitions, the new dictionary includes a usage note that gives a percentage figure on approval-disapproval. For ain't, the usage note states...
The two people who took King Collins's dialogue seriously were Professor Inkeles and a student named John Henry, who invited Collins to Eliot House last weekend. Both finally called the police to get rid of them. King Collins and his gang have brought out in us the vigilant spirit...
Organized by the Moscow-dominated World Federation of Democratic Youth, the organization has already sent volunteers to twelve countries, including Ghana, Tanzania, India, Pakistan, Cuba, Mongolia and several Arab nations. Their activities usually parallel those of the U.S. Peace Corps, and the two groups, in fact, often work in the...
After Vietnam, of course, the American public is likely to be far more vigilant when any President begins a piecemeal commitment of American forces to small, strife-torn countries several thousand miles away., It should be recalled, of course, that the post-1965 stage of U.S. involvement in Vietnam saw...