Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a conversation, I mentioned that I had a son-in-law who spoke Mandarin. Our interpreter-guide told us that the Chinese have dropped that class-conscious word...
Students are now often reckoned as a part of the Establishment. They are not only asking to be "counted in," but they are even adopting the accouterments deemed to constitute the American formula for success. Competition is the key word. "Work hard, clean up, learn from your elders, and success will be yours," they have been told. Courses are unerringly chosen according to their reported marketability...
...champion's eyes showed merriment. Privately he had given Joe Louis $10,000 to spend two weeks with him at the Concord Hotel. Publicly he refused to notice Louis wince whenever the word "nigger" rang...
...rerun the story of Henry VIII's war with the papacy over his divorce, assuming that most English-speaking readers know it already. At other times, though, particularly in his discussion of more recent times, Johnson's book has some peculiar lacunae. There is not a word about Russian Orthodoxy under the Czars, or under Communism. Nor about pentecostalism, a significant force in American Christianity since the turn of the century and now a phenomenon world wide. He barely touches on the Protestant ecumenical movement...
David's perception was confirmed after the meeting when Rosovsky summed up his feelings about returning to the CHUL chairmanship in one word, "Exhiliration...