Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your mouth to avoid the smell and clench your teeth so the flies can't get in. Beggars are everywhere and swarm around you. Children follow you holding out their hands for money. A cripple throws himself in your path, clinging shakily to his crutch, and without saying a word expresses the horror of human degradation...
Sources closer to the Ibis read into yesterday's move a stern warning against hypocrisy in American life. It is said the Ibis disapproved strongly of the Lampoon's New York Times parody, frowing most particularly on a claim that the word "seized" had been mispelled by intention. Irresponsibility is one thing, the Ibis is said to feel, while patent untruths are quite another
...many of the Republican Governors as possible, to create a draft, in effect, from that powerful group. Rockefeller and George Hinman, his chief political aide, froze the idea at once. Agnew, who had come to Washington saying it was time to stand up and be counted, then passed the word that the Governors must have the opportunity to "sort out their thinking before taking positions on any candidate...
...lose if the deepening division between white and black U.S. citizens is ever to be closed. So critical did the commission find the problem-and so hopeful was it of shocking the U.S. into badly needed reforms-that with a burst of publicity, it rushed its 250,000-word report before the public four months ahead of schedule...
...full of wind-smooth souls and forces which nudge us through life. "Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne. Or, to quote Hunter's epigraph for Desire: "In the vocabulary of the sub-conscious there is a word for every shape and sound that goes unnoticed in passing time. Though we will never speak them, these words define our souls." Desire tries to lure those mysteries, words and footsteps, into the dusty ranges of our senses...