Word: virtually
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...statement that "there is a right way to use words and construct sentences, and many wrong ways." Later on, after having stated that most verbs ending in -ize are "nearly all unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize. It qualifies the absolute: fairly certain, virtual unanimity, quasi-universal. It insists that he betted on a horse is proper, speaks of cookery books, permits in case of fire but not in case of emergency. According to Follett-or the committee-margarine takes a hard g, and clothes, suggestion and chestnut should be pronounced cloes, sudjestion...
...England) and Thomas Hardy attended his wedding, and a cousin, who later became a bishop, performed the ceremony. The bride's father was the Duke of Devonshire and Governor General of Canada, and the tribe of Cavendishes was represented in all its complex consanguinity, unrivaled since the virtual disappearance of the Bourbons from Europe...
...Supreme Court's Miranda decision (TIME, June 24). Like many another law-enforcement officer, Younger feared that because of the high court's holding that every suspect must be reminded "prior to questioning" of his right to silence and to legal counsel, there would be a virtual end to all voluntary confessions and a sharp and disheartening decline in successful prosecutions...
...withdrew from the contest, and Kennedy invited O'Connor down to his McLean, Va., home for breakfast and a chat. In a sense, Kennedy was also coming to O'Connor's table. He pledged preconvention neutrality, which was all that O'Connor needed for the virtual assurance that he would get the nomination to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term...
...pretty tense situation," said Jim Hayes, the leader of the march. But he had no criticism of police. "We don't ask for police protection--we just try to talk to people instead." Wherever they go, violence is likely, Without police, the likelihood becomes a virtual certainly. Again, this has become routine, and the marchers pass over it almost glibbly. But their refusal to ask for protection separates them from most other protestors. It is an important distinction...