Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles, "And Now a Word about Commercials" and "Healing by Tinkering" expose the appalling attitude of the citizenry of this, the richest country, toward their fellow citizens. Apparently the American public is willing to pay, via the marketplace, a hidden tax on its beer, cigarettes, detergents and automobiles to support $22,000-per-minute television commercials, but is unwilling to pay for the vitally needed equipment or manpower to save the lives of more than a slim handful of the 20,000 or more Americans who develop a treatable kidney disease each year...
...theory, one must not be so shortsighted as to focus on 1917. The actual origin of the theory that made the laser possible must be credited to the Greek scientists Leucippus (fl. 5th century B.C.) and Democritus (460-370 B.C.), who originated the atomic theory and also coined the word atom (Greek for not + cutting, indivisible...
...mayor of a charming medieval French village threatening to paint its buildings red, blue and green? And why does la Patronne want the one word, Ouf!, on her tombstone? See THE WORLD, The Benefactress...
Pursuing that line with unrelenting tenacity, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond spent more than four hours denouncing decisions that have guaranteed the rights of criminal defendants. Rasped Thurmond: "Mallory! Mallory! I want that word to ring in your ears. Mallory! A man who confessed to a crime, and the court turned him loose on a technicality." In this instance, Fortas served as stand-in for the whole phalanx of Supreme Court predecessors. Mallory v. U.S., one of several cases that have brought full constitutional protections to defendants, was decided in 1957-eight years before he reached the bench...
...story circulating in the Midwest these days tells how a pollster approached two men and asked one of them whether he intended to vote for Humphrey or Nixon for President. Without a word, the man hauled off and slugged the pollster. "What's the matter with you?" his friend remonstrated. "You know you're going to vote for one of those guys." Replied the first man: "I know, but I don't like to be reminded...