Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While many Americans are questioning the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam in word and print, many others-in the generation subject to the draft-are going considerably further. Paralleling the rise in U.S. manpower in Viet Nam, draft-counseling and resistance centers are springing up around the country, while longestablished, religion-oriented agencies are swamped with requests for advice on conscientious objection...
...irreverent study of the numbers game called How to Lie with Statistics, Author Darrell Huff coined the word "statisticulation"-the art of lying with statistics while seeming objective. One trade that statisticulates regularly is advertising. A nostrum for piles or pyorrhea is endorsed by eight cut of ten physicians because the ad agency has tirelessly spent time and money assembling panel after panel until it finds one that shows an eight-out-of-ten result...
...considerably more detailed and accurate than the more completely filled-in Russian map. And even while the meeting was in session, word was received that the excellent photographs returned by Orbiter 5 would improve upon Zond 3's performance and eliminate most of the unmapped areas...
Smith agreed. Whereas indoors it would look like just a jumble of wooden beams, under the trees in Nowak's yard it really becomes a kind of whimsical grasshopper, assuming all the delightful associations with which James Joyce loaded the word...
...mountain road toward Muyupampa, an isolated little farming town in the foot hills of the Bolivian Andes. They all admitted that they were on the way down from a guerrilla camp in the high jungle, although just what they had been doing there remains a matter of some dispute. Word that they were on the way had somehow preceded them to Muyupampa. Detachments of troops and plainclothes national police had moved into town the night before. They arrested the men without a fight...