Word: ernestness
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...publicly, rather than holding all discussions behind closed doors, as the old council did. It will be less attentive to downtown business interests, may be less anxious to annex white suburban areas until services in the center city improve, and will surely be more solicitous of poor areas. Vows Ernest McGowen, a black mailman who will represent Houston's northeast section: "People in office haven't heard from this side of town, but they will...
...events immediately before it. But critics of ECT, even as it is practiced today, say that it can also cause permanent brain damage, including a loss of memory of events in the more distant past. Still, any evidence of long-term memory loss is conflicting and anecdotal. For example, Ernest Hemingway was convinced that ECT ruined his writing career by wiping out his store of experiences. Marilyn Rice, a former Government economist, claims the treatments obliterated her expertise and forced her early retirement...
...only to die. "You are our iron youth," their high school instructor (Donald Pleasence) tells them, with proper Germanic pride. "Iron youth be comes iron heroes." They are sent to the Western Front, where they find that iron, like everything else, quickly disintegrates in the trenches. A veteran, Katczinsky (Ernest Borgnine), teaches them the two essentials of staying alive - stealing food and killing Frenchies. Never use a bayonet, he says; while you are pulling it out of a man's stomach, his comrade will get you. A shovel, on the other hand, can take your enemy's head...
...Pritchett was sent off to learn the leather business. By 1921 he was an expatriate, earning a slender living selling photography supplies, ostrich feathers and shellac in Paris. It was the Paris of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, but Pritchett knew little of it. He recalls a winter evening in 1922 when he watched people walking up the Boulevard du Montparnasse carrying a large blue-covered volume. It was the first edition of Joyce's Ulysses, an author Pritchett had not heard...
...these four forces, Einstein concerned himself with only two--electromagnetism and gravity--because the others were simply beyond his experimental means. The two others, which exist on the sub-atomic level, were developed to resolve specific problems. Ernest Rutherford's celebrated early twentieth century experiments on nuclear density uncovered an empirical contradiction: all the protons (positively charged species) in a given atom are concentrated in its nucleus; since like charges repel one another, the nucleus should theoretically burst apart. So physicists coined the "strong" forces--those which specifically...