Word: worded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frank Trippett vanish if he makes one more pun on the word...
Allan Bakke. Before long the name may well become a household word. In potentially the most important civil rights case since Brown v. Board of Education, the would-be medical student is suing the University of California for refusing to admit him, a white, while accepting blacks who were less qualified. The Carter Administration becomes involved this week when the Justice Department files an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, which will take up the case next month. The basic issue: quotas and "reverse discrimination...
...book, and hoped for a foreword by Jimmy. They even had a prospectus put together for publishers and included some sample snaps: Amy on Daddy's knee, Miss Lillian out fishing, Rosalynn on the tennis court, Jimmy in a hospital gown after the birth of a grandchild. Then word got round about how Annette and Jeff were aiming to follow a bit too closely in Brother Billy's enterprising footsteps. Last week the project was quietly dropped. As a member of Rosalynn's staff explained, "They didn't want to do anything that would seem...
...game (she wearing men's brown pants, an unpressed white shirt, a black vest, and a ridiculously long polka-dot tie, an outfit Diane might have found on the floor of her own closet). She starts to compliment him on his tennis, gets lost in one of her enchanted word-forests, then subsides into pretty embarrassment: "Oh, God, Annie ... Well, oh, well ..." And then the murmur of defeat: "La-de-dah, la-de-dah." Heartbreaking. Does anyone doubt that young women across the country are looking into their mirrors and trying to find just the right intonation with which...
Land's idea is not new. The camera obscura (the word camera means room or chamber in Latin) was described by the Islamic scientist Alhazen, who died in A.D. 1039. It consisted of a darkened room with a small opening through which light passed to form an image on the wall opposite the aperture. Nor is using photography to make precise copies of paintings or other objets d'art a recent invention. Art reproductions have long been made by photographing paintings and then enlarging the pictures...