Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Word. Walker found instant support. "It is an excellent document," said Jay Miller, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Illinois division. Wrote Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko: "Those policemen who did not bash private citizens showed great restraint. Not only did they restrain themselves from hitting citizens, they also restrained themselves from restraining the policemen who hit the citizens." But William Campbell, chief judge of the U.S. district court in Chicago, suggested that Walker's staff had worked hastily, heedless of an investigation by a grand jury that he had appointed. The grand...
Until the grand-jury report appeared, at least, it seemed the Chicago police would have the last word. After Walker's attacks last week, Mayor Daley-flanked by smiling policemen-announced a $2,000 pay raise for the city's cops next year. Wages of a man with 42 months on the force, for example, will jump from $9,000 to $11,000 annually. The raises, boasted Daley, will "make them the highest-paid policemen in the nation...
...dignify their often absurd arguments over such ceremonial questions, diplomats talk about "modalities." The word is derived from "modal," which pertains to form as opposed to substance -and history is studded with episodes where wrangles over form all but prevented negotiators from ever getting down to substance...
...name is an acronym derived from the Arabic words Harakat al Tahrir al-Falastin, or Movement for the Liberation of Palestine. Its initials, H.T.F., form the Arabic word for death. They are ingeniously reversible to F.T.H., pronounced "faht," meaning conquest -hence El Fatah or, as it is less commonly spelled, El Fateh...
...Benjamin Braddock, I have only one word...