Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning after the State of the Union address, ranking members of the Senate majority who make up the Democratic Policy Committee gathered for a private meeting. "It was the damnedest thing," one participant remarked afterward. "Not a single word was said about the President's speech...
There are indeed signs that New Hampshire Republicans are warming to the outsider, whose supporters are spreading the word that "Romney's right." On the stump, Romney does nothing to belie his slogan's perfervid moralizing by stressing the need to discipline children and hold families together. "There didn't used to be the cynicism there is today," sighed Romney at a Plaistow kaffeeklatsch...
...ballet, like the compositions, is really two separate works. In Metas-taseis (a coined word meaning dialectic transformation), an enormous disk at the center of a bare stage reveals itself to be 28 male and female dancers in chalk-white garments that look like winter underwear. Slowly they writhe, rise, and begin to surge about the stage, combining and recombining, touching and turning, with arms and legs outstretched like diagrams of molecular linkage or a microscopic view of the proliferation of cells-an impression heightened by bright white crosslighting...
Learning Vietnamese is appropriately perplexing. With its six distinct tonal levels, it is as hard to master as the country's current politics and history. To sift through the grammar is easy enough but the tonal business is frustrating. One word may have two, three, or even four completely different meanings depending upon the pitch and stress you use. There is a well-known and true story of Robert McNamara's difficulty with the language on his frequent visits to Saigon. He likes to make a small pleasantry to his Vietnamese audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately his aides...
...little quieter in the near future. The wranglings of the past two years have taken a toll; more than one long-term friendship has been strained--or snapped. In his inaugural address, Mayor Sullivan said he hoped that his administration would be one of "harmony." Though only a word, it is a word heard more frequently around City Hall these days...