Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement included a sentence reading, "They will be drafted to fight what we believe to be an immoral and unjust war." When a handful of girls dissented from this phrasing in a preliminary vote, the word "we" was changed to "many of us." The statement as a whole was then voted on, and received a large majority...
...name is just too much joy) is conducting a small battle in class warfare. It is the author as a tough and experienced, yet fair and just police sergeant trying to cope with a misguided upper class of intellectuals. He repeatedly slurs them with the label "elite", a word that implies unfair competitive advantage and caste-like social separation...
...most people today, the word brings to mind a fetchingly skimpy swimsuit. Few now recall that Bikini was the site of the world's fourth atom ic detonation and the cradle of the hydrogen bomb. It has been 22 years since the atoll's docile people were banished by the atom, and gentling nature and the passage of time have leached away Bikini's residual radiation. Lush vegetation once more covers the island. Through their long exile, most of it on inhospitable, isolated, mosquito-plagued Kili Island, the 300 or so Bikinians have huddled in a beachfront...
...lectured, she carried her word: "I would like to see the day when every blind child has an opportunity of an education and every blind grownup has the chance for training and job placement." The American Foundation for the Blind appointed her counselor on national and international relations, a title that conveyed only a hint of her activities; governments from Washington to Tokyo gave her medals...
...that the Israelis are allowing them to leave for political rather than humane motives, since every departing Arab is one potential terrorist fewer to deal with and one mouth fewer to feed. But the rate of the Arab exodus by bus and hired taxi has dropped off lately as word has spread that few jobs are available in Jordan...