Word: worded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...City by passing the Bill of Rights and the Judiciary Act, creating the Supreme Court. President Washington finished naming his Cabinet, which included Thomas Jefferson of Virginia as Secretary of State and Colonel Alexander Hamilton of New York as Secretary of the Treasury. It was also a time when word arrived of a mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty, when the first chrysanthemum reached France from China, when Captain John Paul Jones was accused (falsely) of an attempted rape of a ten-year-old girl in Russia, and when Traitor Benedict Arnold was floundering in his attempt to run an import...
...ironic that after spending so many hours researching the story of gross misuse of power, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein also are guilty of this very thing [April 5]. Perhaps theirs is the greater guilt. Political power passes on. The power of the written word endures for all time...
...Brilliant murals signed "Sergei Gaposhkin, 1957" line the walls. Wolbach frowns at them. "A Russian individual by the name of Sergei Gaposhkin--Dr. Gaposhkin--was given liberties, here. He, ahem, found the ultraviolet paint, as you see, and then he--painted." Wolbach comes down with emphasis on the last word, and stops in front of a vivid pink, flaming...
...house and how they are to be construed. These rules were formulated, of course, to ensure impartiality and prevent abuse of power. But they also provide an opportunity for special expertise, in just the way that Berawan adatlaw is the preserve of the noblemen. Adat is a word meaning everything from religious observance to interpersonal etiquette. The co-op also has its adat, as is clear enough when one hears an older member explaining to new recruits the way things used to be done. An appeal is being made to our own cult of the ancestors. The older members...
...finish, let me justify the word tribal in my title. The Berawan longhouse was traditionally a sovereign political unit. No power reached from one community to another, and consequently anyone from outside the longhouse might be an enemy. Berawan houses never fought among themselves or took each others' heads, but they did suspect each other of witchcraft and other antisocial behavior. The hostility of the outside world maintained the solidarity of the Berawan community and gave rise to their own sense of identity, their feelings of superiority and their idiosyncratic ritual...