Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...prime offenders, of course, are not so much the dogs as their owners. Cities abound with curb-your-dog signs; those near Manhattan's U.N. building deliver the message in four languages. But who heeds them? Owners know that cops are often too busy even to enforce the laws requiring leashes...
Lighter Side. Literary lunacies abound. Under "Shakespeare and the Computers" is a revelation from an Enfield College of Technology scholar who used a computer to crack the cipher of the sonnets. Solution: Shakespeare was really Edward VI, who, contrary to popular belief, died at 125 instead of 16 after writing all of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Don Quixote...
Ultimately, the Cambodian version of this issue is less likely to reach the Supreme Court than to be settled politically between Congress and the President. Meantime, ironies abound. Liberals who long dismissed Congress as retrograde and favored "power to the President," as Columbia Law Professor Tom Farer puts it, are now defending congressional wisdom. Longtime advocates of pragmatic interpretation of the Constitution are now becoming staunch strict constructionists...
...Grapefruit is, rather, the droppings of a group of freshmen sitting one night around an ash tray. They are stoned and each now and then utters things which are astounding in their insight. OH-WOW's abound; each is fascinated with each one's wit; life becomes a trip of insights. In Yoko's book, these insights are called pieces; they are grouped into sections ; and, small wonder, the sections together are termed Grapefruit . Moreover, each piece is of the type so common to stone sessions: the instruction . The instruction is the message one pens to oneself when stoned...
Fortunately, vigorous objectors abound in Manhattan. Last month the brand-new International Council of Legmen issued its first public manifesto. Major aim of "this dedicated group of gam aficionados: to establish a unified voice on fashion decisions relating to female leg exposure." Says Council Chairman Thomas Redington: "Designers are paying too little attention to legmen. We're going to change all that, even if it takes some high-pressure lobbying." Already, letters have gone out to all members of Congress; Legmen predict large-scale support...