Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stated that "she leans her head back, forehead gleaming with perspiration." Aretha does not perspire, she sweats. Sweat has soul. Perspire is a word invented by blue-veined little ladies who spoke of limbs instead of arms and legs, boy cows instead of bulls...
Castro, who wrote a 7,000-word introduction to the diary, was a bit vague when it came to explaining his propaganda coup. "The way that the diary came into our hands cannot be divulged at the moment," he wrote. "It is enough to say that it required no monetary remuneration." Actually, several copies of the diary have been around for the stealing or buying. At least one copy each had been photographed for Bolivian President Rene Barrientos, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and several Bolivian military brass. In addition, two U.S. journalists were allowed to transcribe many...
There was no word to describe the new device when scientists first learned how to build it. But there seemed to be no limit to its potential. The fierce pure light they were coaxing out of synthetic crystals was so powerful that the military believed its long-sought super-weapon-a death ray-might finally become a reality. Applications in medicine and in industry seemed limited only by the human imagination...
Tuesday. The set goes black, but one word shines in the center of the screen: Read...
Hideous Neckties. A world-renowned brain surgeon, Professor Preobrazhensky (the name suggests the Russian word for transfiguration), implants the testicles and pituitary glands of a dead balalaika player in the body of a mongrel dog. Lo, the animal is transformed; he begins to talk and to assume human characteristics. Unfortunately, they are those of the balalaika player, a sodden, crude-minded lowlife. Nevertheless, the dog is welcomed as an equal by the sanctimoniously proletarian house committee of the professor's apartment building. Sharik the dog becomes "Sharikov" the Soviet citizen. He is supplied with identity papers and, except...