Word: invents
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...there were not a William F. Buckley, U.S. editors would have to invent a James Jackson Kilpatrick. The need for a columnist and commentator with a conservative view and a gift for language has never been more apparent than in these Nixon-Agnew days; Kilpatrick fills that need for 170 newspapers via the Washington Star Syndicate and for Washington's WTOP...
Actually, few doctors are willing to take such risks, and most of their letters are legitimate. They do not invent diseases but look extra hard for disabilities that disqualify their patients. This is not difficult, since the Selective Service rejects men with dental braces or any ailment that requires frequent treatment-for example, asthma, allergies, diabetes, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure. It wants no habitual drug users, extremely ugly men or those adorned with obscene tattoos...
...John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read and write and think politically, he has set events in motion that end in a blaze of atrocity...
...fair, Agnew did not invent the guilt-by-verbal-association form of terminological confusion. Some years ago, the phrase "radical conservative" was used in both liberal and radical circles. This horrid hybrid, radical conservative, every bit as monstrous as radical liberal, was supposed to describe activist conservatives, such as members of the John Birch society, who were inclined to ideologize their principles and who exhibited some stylistic similarities to leftist radicals. People have called themselves "radical conservatives," meaning that their conservatism was fundamental and thoroughgoing. Similarly, a man might -though few, if any, have done so in recent years-call...
...therefore relatively free of confusing associations. (It is true that staphylo means "bunch of grapes," but since hardly anyone knows this, there is minimal danger that people will be misled into thinking an infection is caused by a bunch of grapes.) Many outsiders complain that scientists invent inaccessible jargons; but better a difficult language conveying precise meanings than "plain English" that misleads by using old names for new things...