Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diverse crew is not without its frictions. There is something of a generation gap between the veterans and the youngsters, a certain amount of resentment that "Adamant Adam" Walinsky gets the last word so often on rhetoric. O'Brien and O'Donnell "speak to each other, but don't communicate," as one colleague puts it. O'Brien has been assigned to the primary states, O'Donnell to delegate work in the non-primary states. Goodwin is somewhat out of favor; he worked for both Johnson and McCarthy. Greenfield keeps on permanent display a college newspaper editorial he wrote criticizing Jack...
...often works on as many as 25 projects at one time, many of which are handled directly from their head-quarters on Mass. Ave. near Harvard Square. Their clientele is primarily industrial and business firms. IGS does no mass advertising, but relies on promotional newsletters and word of mouth. Many of the assignments gotten this way are those mundane but vital matters businesses keep secret from each other...
Very often the results of studies are not clear cut, or else are contradictory to the projected answer. One study, which tried to discover why lawyers are not used more frequently in underprivileged communities, came up with mostly ifs and buts. Another study of the power of word of mouth communication in consumer buying turned up some rather surprising results. There is definitely a relationship between the frequency with which you hear the name of a product, and your instinct to buy it. But it makes no difference whether what you hear about the product is positive or negative...
...Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church at León, the splendor of the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela. Michener...
...Harvard Sports Information said it had not received word of Andersen's resignation and had no plans for choosing a successor...