Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After receiving word of the abduction Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dropped all other work to take personal command of a special "crisis staff' composed of high officials, security police and crime experts. A nationwide alert was ordered, and Schmidt made a televised appeal for all Germans to cooperate in the search...
Three years of development have enabled Olds engineers to solve some other problems. A passenger who did not happen to notice the word diesel on the hood ornament or the rear of the car probably could not tell, from quietness or smoothness of ride, that he was traveling in an unconventional auto. Yet some difficulties remain. The most serious is getting the engine to start on a cold morning. Since the whole principle of diesel ignition is to raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block...
...officer or car salesman may be considered placement, in another only a teaching appointment at a certified college is counted as such.) Overall, 88 per cent of the 1976 graduating Harvard Ph.D. s found jobs, a figure which is next to meaningless because of the varying definitions of the word "job." But one thing is certain. Keenan says increasing numbers of graduating Harvard Ph.D. s have been finding placements at points lower down on the academic ladder: fewer receive appointments at major universities, more find jobs at two-year community and junior colleges...
...quite often. They are so preoccupied with finding the guilty that they have no time to do what has to be done. Everything that has happened during the emergency is happening now without the legal sanction of a constitutional emergency-arrests, press controls, everything. I would not use the word dictatorship because it has been bandied about far too much. But if my rule was a dictatorship, then this is a dictatorship...
...avoid questioning. The Korean Central Intelligence Agency presumably arranged Park's flight from London to Seoul to keep him out of Jaworski's way, and then stage-managed his press conference as well. As one of Park's old Washington cronies observed, "He said not a word in Washington or London. Then he gets to Seoul and holds a press conference. You figure...