Word: webster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appropriate for Professor Kilson to have called the blacks concerned with the insensitivity of the Lampoon "militants"! Webster's New World Dictionary defines a "militant" as a person "vigorous or agressive in support or promotion of a cause." For Professor Kilson to have used the word militant in this case makes me proud. Now I can further feel that the dedication to achievement which I as a black knew was present among black students is felt by more than just myself...
...amateur ornithologist, this is the "barred owl (strix varia), because it is barred across the stomach," Richard Webster '77 said yesterday...
...National Weather Service last week made it official. After consulting informal temperature records kept by such oldtimers as Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau and Noah Webster, the service announced that January in the eastern two-thirds of the country was the coldest month in 177 years. If temperatures through March run only moderately below normal, said the weathermen, the nation will have a true Bicentennial winter: the most shivery since the founding of the Republic...
David Mamet, unlike the grunting, inarticulate characters he puts on the stage in American Buffalo, is as wordy as Webster's. In the course of conversation, the 29-year-old playwright can ornament his speeches with quotes from Tolstoy, Archibald MacLeish, Karl Marx, Voltaire, Jesus or Stanislavsky...
...said, a "ghastly" time and thought the college president "a sour old saint." But now, whether Twain's ghost likes it or not, he is at Vassar to stay. The college has joyously accepted from the daughter of Twain's grandniece Jean Webster McKinney, '01, a collection of the 19th century humorist's letters and notebooks. They contain their share of Twainian "stretchers," or exaggerations. From the gold camps of the West he wrote: "I have had my whiskers and moustaches as full of alkali dust that you'd have thought I worked...