Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great stone face" stems only partly from an occasional deadpan expression; his stiff body contributes the rest of the impression. Even so, the reputation is unjustified, because sharp-eyed Dr. Birdwhistell has found that, by actual count, his face motions are average for the U.S.-"less than someone from Atlanta, but more than someone from Buffalo...
...down on expense accounts so sharply that General News Manager Earl Johnson told his men to retaliate by signing all their hotel meal checks with Mickel's name; Mickel was barely able to leave town. A sardonic example of U.P. tightfistedness was an exchange one day between Atlanta, the U.P.'s southern division relay point, and Raleigh, N.C., where a staffer was simultaneously punching copy on two teleprinters. When Atlanta complained that the copy was moving too slowly, Raleigh replied: HE ONLY HAS TWO HANDS. Came Atlanta's message: FIRE THE CRIPPLED BASTARD. (The U.P. has also...
...possible puzzle for future archaeologists. A classic case of inconvenience occurred when a new road cut off a farmer's privy from his house, forcing him either to build a new one or make an eightmile. trip and pay a toll. (He built a new one.) In Atlanta, an apartment building is being moved from the path of a new road while tenants continue to live in it with the services of all utilities...
...Extra "R." In Round 18, popular Fred Souk, 13, who had flown all the way from the Azores, where his father works, threw an extra "r" into fanfaronade, and only five spellers were left. Then the only remaining male, Ken Finkel of Atlanta, left one "l" out of favillous. Sandra Owen was unshakable on sequela. Mary Gilliland of Fort Worth hesitated on butyraceous but managed to get by, and redheaded Dana Bennett, 13, of Denver, tossed off ovoviviparous as if it were cat. Poor Jolitta Schlehuber of Topeka, however, substituted an "s" for a "c" in racemiform. And so there...
...editors' efforts to find a local angle. Miami Herald reporters managed to extract opinions from a Robert E. Lee. a Colonel Guilford R. Montgomery, a Jack Mead and a Mrs. A. J. Eisenhower. Historian (Lincoln Finds a General) Kenneth P. Williams was traced to Bloomington. Ind. by the Atlanta Constitution, and allowed that "it would have been rather unjust to replace Lee for that one battle." Mrs. Robert E. Lee III, identified as "the widow of the Generals grandson," confided to the Washington Post and Times Herald that the Ike-Monty verdict was "disgusting...