Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the fighting seemed to be dropping off, and U.S. officials in Washington, privately surprised at how long and intensely the warfare had gone on after the ceasefire, cautiously predicted that it would decline further as the supervisory teams began to function. They expect scattered, small-scale fighting, including assassinations and other terror tactics, to continue, how ever, as both sides pursue their conflicting goals. Even more privately, high U.S. officials, while professing outward optimism, fear that once the U.S. has completely pulled out of Viet Nam, open warfare on a larger scale might erupt once again...
...Because faculties at Harvard are financially independent of each other--Each Tub on Its Own Bottom--that function does not need to be performed here," he explained...
Following the essays on specific myths is a longer piece called "Myth Today," which sets forth a theory of mythology far more complex and profound than the ideas Barthes applies to specific cases. Here, he describes myth as a form of speech whose particular function is to distort psychological intentions into a form which makes them seem natural and universal. The target of Barthes's investigation is the bourgeois, who tries to escape from history into myths such as "the nation" or "the human condition"--mythical universals which actually correspond only to changing, human creations...
...older), the diaconate is far more flexible than the priesthood and can accept candidates who would not qualify academically for present-day seminaries. Exactly what the new deacons should be, however, is still a matter of argument both inside and outside the program. Many of the deacons want to function as something other than a sort of assistant priest. One thought, backed by Belgium's Leo-Jo-zef Cardinal Suenens, is that they should serve as "activators of grassroots communities"-an idea enthusiastically received in such areas as Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods (a number of U.S. deacons...
...continued, is not threatened by its own lapses but by "people who are attempting to intimidate or to use the press for their own ends." Council hearings would call into question the Times's credibility "under a procedure so lacking in due process that one organization would function as investigator, prosecutor and judge rolled into...