Word: balms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murray maintained a huge correspondence, sometimes writing 40 letters a day; his mail went, he said, "to Lord Tennyson to ask where he got the word balm-cricket and what he meant by it; to the Sporting News about a term in horse-racing, or pugilism; or the inventor of the word hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought...
...industry's spokesman, said he did not recommend to Carter a so-called orderly marketing agreement, under which the Administration in effect would negotiate with other countries quotas on foreign steel to be shipped into the U.S. An OMA has been much talked about as a temporary balm for steel; similar agreements already restrict imports of shoes and color-television sets. The United Steelworkers of America is for a steel OMA, but the executives who met with Carter and Strauss last week declined to press for one. The steelmen are awaiting a report from an Administration task force, headed...
...partner, and of woes his healing balm...
labour's bath. Balm of hurt minds, great nature...
...they account for almost 40% of all Hawaii's registered voters, but that percentage should shrink gradually as more and more mainland whites, Samoans and Filipinos migrate to the islands. In any case, A.J.A. politicians have found it necessary to play down their ethnic appeal, both as a balm to non-Japanese and in recognition of the fact that many A.J.A.s, especially young ones, are disinclined to vote on ethnic lines. "There is always this thing about how so-and-so is the first Japanese to become such-and-such," Carl Takamura, a young sansei (third-generation) state legislator...