Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miller felt life deeply and was a strongly spiritual man. "The mystery of life--a word he often used--to him was not mystification but ... a way of openness and sensitivity," Stendahl recalled...
...When word of Ceylon's claim reached New Delhi, no one at first knew which island the Ceylonese were laying claim to; after all, there is little on Kachcha Tivu but cacti. Indira Gandhi, deeply involved in such major problems as a stagnant economy, overpopulation, food shortages and the disintegration of her own Congress Party, would dearly have loved to sidestep the entire issue. In today's India, however, the absurd and obscure seem frequently to become major affairs of state. Once they got a fix on the island, the opposition parties, led by the nationalist Jana Sangh...
...latter term is out of vogue in Manhattan's rarefied critical circles, it is used with force and conviction in Buffalo, where the cab drivers lecture their fares on the horror of the Albright-Knox's modern art, and where Foss reminds his listeners that the word avant-garde is military in origin. The artist, in his view, is meant to act as a sort of spiritual shock-trooper for society, forcing it to become aware of new conflicts and realities whether it wants...
...should use dogs to accompany men on the beat. And I said I wanted the force in high-crime areas to carry shotguns. And I said I wanted to concentrate men in these high-crime areas, and that I wanted them to use the stop-and-frisk law more." Word of his crackdown reached the press, and suddenly he found he had struck a deep, responsive chord throughout the U.S. He received, by his count, 8,000 letters and telegrams. Only 22 were disapproving...
...data is fed directly into a computer that automatically relays it to the proper branch office. The system thus eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of back-office paperwork: matching buy and sell reports from exchanges with each customer's original order and passing the word along to the salesman...