Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught virtually every word that mattered...
...dislike able, impetuous Jim Smith. As ICA boss he was known to boil over at Congressmen, to refuse jobs to Republican politicians because politics made them "controversial."' Quickly New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other G.O.P. members of the Senate Appropriations and Armed Services Committees passed the word to G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn that Smith as Navy Secretary was no go. On that basis Gates persuaded Franke, by then considerably recovered, to reconsider...
...conflict between these two groups is primarily at the symbolic level. For traditionalists, any use of the word "growth" or "adjustment" is enough to induce rage, no matter what the context or meaning. Conversely, for many progressives the suggestion that knowledge is best organized into "subjects," or that the mind can profit from "discipline," raises such a repellent image of rote learning and tedious pedantry that they will hear no more of the matter...
...immediately seized by a policeman, who roughly demanded, "Go back where you came from!" Coulter refused and was promptly put under arrest. Coulter claims that Nathan, who had been watching nearby, stepped over and said, "Officer, you can't arrest that man." The policeman turned without a word and slugged Nathan in the face. Two more patrolmen joined in as he was knocked down, clubbed and kicked. Then police arrested both, charging "drunkenness" and refused to permit a lawyer and a doctor called by Mrs. Nathan to see the prisoners, Coulter stated...
...played by Zachary Scott), Temple tells all in a flashback confessional. It is a litany of lust and degradation. Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy...