Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structures and quirky personalities. Facetiously, he reminds us, is one of the few words in which all the vowels appear in the proper sequence; duoliteral is one of the even fewer in which they all appear backward. Kinnikinnik, he reports, is not only an Indian smoking mixture of bark and leaves but the longest palindrome among the 450,000 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Cuspidor is the word that James Joyce declared to be the most beautiful in the entire language...
...houses several Katyusha rocket launchers and fieldpieces. In response, P.L.O. Katyushas came crashing down on suspected Israeli positions in East Beirut. Fires flared up along the skyline competing with the flashes and sparks of the artillery The noise level became stupendous: the whoosh-whoosh of the Katyushas, the brazen bark of the tanks, the gossipy chatter of machine guns...
...painstaking response. "The majority of people who have any strong dislike for me don't know me. From the outside looking in, they see a fellow from New York City, relatively affluent, very aggressive. I come on very strong. But," he says with a very engaging grin, "my bark is much worse than my bite." Later, he comes back to the same theme. "I have a very strong personality. I come on very strong. I have lots of enthusiasm. I do lots of things that are fairly visible, and when I do them that can be offensive to people...People...
...drive to improve productivity, a growing number of U.S. companies have begun to appreciate the crucial importance of shop-floor supervisors. For better or worse, that hard-pressed first level of bosses often sets the working tone for an entire plant. The style has traditionally been management by shouting: bark out orders like a Marine drill instructor until they get results...
...attached to the disc over books that contain not only pictures and words but also bar codes on pages similar to those that now appear on grocery items, magazines and other goods. The wand reads the codes, and the unit makes the appropriate sounds. The machine can also sing, bark or even say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Texas Instruments this year will publish at least eight coded books, including Stranded E.T.'s Adventure, a spin-off from the new Steven Spielberg movie. The Magic Wand costs $120 and each book...