Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Covert operations are supposed to be secret. But last week, word that George Bush had authorized a $3 million covert plan to topple Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega leaked out before the operation even got under way. The Los Angeles Times reported that Bush had authorized the CIA to recruit members of the Panamanian Defense Forces for an anti-Noriega revolt. In a change of policy, the Bush plan reportedly authorizes a coup even if Noriega is accidentally killed. Asked about the report, Bush said, "It wouldn't be covert if I even referred...
COCA, however, failed to identify itself as the distributor of the material as required by rules in the Handbook for Students, printing only the word "facsimile" in small type at the card's bottom...
...regularly at the same time each day recognized the need for a safe alternative and hired a baby sitter to sit with their children off to the side of the pool. Like many small ventures that emerge at the right time, the pool sitting service was so successful, the word started circulating (erroneously) that Harvard University was providing day care at the pool. Soon, too many people came with their babies, and a second sitter was hired. As an informal service, there were a few guidelines for the sitters, and some of the older toddlers, who had grown up next...
WHEN I signed up for my campus job at the library, I did not have the destruction of the printed word on my mind. I thought I had hooked one of the cushiest jobs around--sitting at the circulation desk for three small research libraries that almost no one uses...
...that seeped up in those years in Alabama and Mississippi. But the bruise of the past is deep. The students segregate themselves, black clusters and white clusters, in the school cafeteria. They struggle to describe the abiding significance of race in Prince Edward County. They cannot quite find the word for what they suspect in the hearts of the other race. Not "prejudice." Not "hatred," not "intolerance," exactly. It is, they say, something hidden, and always there...