Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bismarckicm Parallel. Between the time that news tickers carried the first word to Washington on Monday afternoon and the public confirmation on Wednesday evening, McNamara's reassignment had been inflated into a palace revolution comparable to Kaiser Wilhelm II's dismissal of Otto von Bismarck in 1890, partly because the Iron Chancellor had opposed his sovereign's militant foreign policy...
...Faculty did not change a word of the legislation approved two weeks ago by its Committee on Educational Policy. This means that when the pass-fail option goes into operation next year, it will...
...over three centuries, an imaginary planet. The 40-volume encyclopedia describing Tlon--man's most vast undertaking--is discovered in a Memphis, Tenn., library in 1944. Tlon contains a "doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death" and has a word for "the vague tremulous rose color we see with our eyes closed." The system's imaginative power allows it to replace the real world--to imagine itself into existence. The whole universe might be a dream which might be dispelled at any moment...
...Would brobdingnagian be closer to the word for which you are groping...
Just listening to Anything Goes from a loud, live orchestra more than compensates for the excesses of the Agassiz production. Following the lyrics word-for-word, which Peter Larson's chorus unexpectedly makes possible, is doubly satisfying. Last night's audience applauded only at "And though by all the birdies in the boughs he/is informed that his efforts are perfectly lousy." But the great lyrics in Anything Goes are legion...