Word: alphabetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changing fast. The white man's 20th century has shattered the crude, tribal world which once gave meaning and sanction to the black man's life. In forests where 50 years ago there were no roads because the wheel was unknown, no schools because there was no alphabet, no peace because there was neither the will nor the means to enforce it, the sons of slaves dig for the raw material (copper, uranium, vanadium) of the Atomic...
...offered a tentative explanation. "You see," he said, "some time ago the Thai government sent up a list of some 70 American soldiers it wanted to decorate for assistance to the Thai battalion. The list was written in Thai, which is a very difficult language. It has its own alphabet, which is very squiggly. I can't say for sure, but I've got a hunch that the medal in question was supposed to be given to some other Johnson." It was-to Private Walter N. Johnson, now back on his farm in Aplington, Iowa...
...Alphabet Soup Again...
...week trooped some 6,000 athletes and officials of 67 nations,* parading around the rain-soaked, brick-red track past the presidential box and the stands packed with 70,000 applauding spectators. In its traditional position, the Greek team led the parade. Behind it, in order of the Finnish alphabet, marched the others: India's athletes, in light green and white flannels and gay turbans; the Russians, men in cream-colored flannels, women in bright blue blazers; the 368-member U.S. team: and the Finns, bringing up the rear as Olympic hosts. Then out of a stadium tunnel loped...
...clue for that device came from a strange source: an army captain had invented a system of dot-and-dash symbols which could be punched out on thick paper and read by touch at night. When Braille heard about it, he got the idea of inventing an alphabet code of his own. The result was the Braille system, based on various arrangements of from one to six dots...