Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students. Government officials must make the decisions, but the public still has the power to decide who those officials are, he said. Lakoff added he had worn a blue arm band last year during the Tocain demonstration, but declined this year because the group had not fulfilled its primary function-- confronting its own community with the problems of disarmament and nuclear testing...
...platform resembling Labor's (main difference : the Liberals do not favor nationalization of industry). They are unencumbered by the Labor Party's internal feuds and by the proletarian stigma that keeps many middle-class voters from going Labor. Sniffed Macmillan: "The Liberal Party is performing the valuable function of the exhaust pipe in the motorcar...
...sculptor's art: the temptation to reproduce only appearances, and the feeling that the artist must pursue some inherited ideal of beauty. What Moore has always been after is not beauty but vitality. "Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function," he believes. "The first aims at pleasing the senses; the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses...
...wish to make these corrections in order that the function of these agencies in no way be misinterpreted by your readers. Thank you. Richard Alpert, Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology...
...will take months for scientists to interpret all the new information that OSO is sending about the sun. Every instrument on the complicated satellite is apparently doing its duty. OSO is expected to function as a solar observatory for about six months, when its supply of compressed nitrogen will be exhausted...