Word: overlying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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American soldiers were back on the streets of Panama last week, called in by President Guillermo Endara to quell a rebellion led by the former chief of Panama's national police. The U.S. troops quickly ended the revolt and turned its leader, Colonel Eduardo Herrera Hassan, over to local authorities...
Clean, precise writing or speaking requires systematic, sequential thought. Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. William Faulkner would isolate himself in a small cell-like room and labor over his words like a jeweler arranging tiny jewels in a watch...
The same hazards apply to speed-reading. Yes, we are bedeviled each day by a mound of papers, and we need to have some way of getting swiftly at the vitals of letters or articles or presentations. But the habit of skimming is too easily carried over to creative reading...
On the opposite extreme, one need not strain for specimens of poor communication in everyday life. Like polluted air, it surrounds and encases us. I see it in the wording of informed-consent papers that patients are asked to sign before undergoing medical procedures. I see it in the small...
Saddam's promise to liberate the hostages, not accidentally, reinforced the impression of a softening Iraq. The first batch of releases was expected this week, and Iraqi officials have said all the captives -- who number up to 4,000, including 750 Americans -- should be home by Christmas. In freeing the...