Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pronounced unsinkable, but as everyone knows, the great ship Titanic ran into an iceberg the night of April 14, 1912, and a new chapter was written in the history of hubris. Walter Lord attempted to offer the last word about that tragedy in his 1955 best seller A Night to Remember. In this lively postscript he shows the hopelessness of that ambition. The Titanic, Lord notes, has become a permanent political symbol: "She has been used to depict the troubles of Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. In British cartoons both the ship and the iceberg have represented Prime Minister Margaret...
...word comes from the Latin for slimy liquid, stench, poison -- and the connotation is appropriate, not only for the AIDS virus but for the untold number of other varieties that have been preying on animals and plants since long before Homo sapiens appeared on earth. Indeed, the current AIDS epidemic is a grim reminder that these infinitesimal, bizarre creatures may be mankind's deadliest enemy. And scientists are warning that a perennial viral threat, the upcoming flu season, could be far more dangerous than usual -- more evidence that these tiny foes are responsible for a large share of human suffering...
...still not formed," he says. "When you hear tango, it can awake something that is familiar. It is urban folklore. But flamenco puts you in a different world. People who expect castanets might be disappointed." If first-week audiences are any indication, however, they will not be, and word of mouth is already causing a toe-tapping, heel-stamping queue at the box office...
...Stockton (Calif.) Unified School District, Computer Educator Jim Greco has hired women computer teachers, screened software for gender bias and put out the word that computers are no longer strictly boys' toys. Says Greco: "We're telling girls that they don't have to be geeks or nerds to like computers...
Charging that the court sometimes seems "to equate the judge with the lawgiver," Meese argued that although high-court decisions made "constitutional law," they were not synonymous with the Constitution itself. Neither were they even the last word on the meaning of its provisions. Each of the three branches of government, he said, "has a duty to interpret the Constitution in the performance of its official functions...