Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF WORDS: JAMES A.H. MURRAY AND THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY by K.M. Elisabeth Murray Yale University Press; 386 pages...
...SOME TIME during freshman year, we lost our cookies. We were all trapped by freshman year, hopelessly enmeshed in a pernicious web of commitments, dreams, dilemmas, loneliness and heartbreak...
...many people glamorize the exploits of the terrorists [Oct. 31]. They are not only the enemies of the powerful, but of anyone who inadvertently falls into their web. If we need heroes, let us find them in such men as those in the G.S.G...
Perhaps the most degrading aspect of the system is the web of social segregation laws and customs known as petty apartheid. In this respect?unlike many others?the segregation is similar to that which existed in the U.S. South until the '60s. Petty apartheid includes everything from segregated buses to beaches and lunch counters. The government has promised to reduce the irritations of petty apartheid, and has made some progress. WHITES ONLY signs have disappeared from elevators and park benches in most cities; restaurants and hotels that are granted "international" status can now admit local blacks...
...Author Dunne, whose credits include Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season, The Studio, Delano and film scripts written with his wife, Novelist Joan Didion, Lois Fazenda is the hapless fly that jiggles a grotesque web of relationships. As Spellacy discovers, the path of the victim's life crisscrossed his own world of Irish-American Los Angeles just after World War II. It is a lively place where an archbishop plays weekly croquet with Samuel Goldwyn, a hard-luck punk goes to the gas chamber for kidnaping a girl on V-J day, and a leading Catholic contractor short...