Word: barkings
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...Terriers' Bark. On the other hand, Winston Churchill cried: "If such a step had been taken by the U.S. before the last war, it would have stopped it." But the U.S.'s bluntness almost gave the Foreign Office heart failure. Said one old Whitehall hand wistfully: "When I think how many millions we in our heyday spread around the world-quietly and discreetly." Said the News Chronicle: "Mr. Truman has given . . . the impression that he has sent the Yankee terriers scuttling down the streets of Athens and Ankara with a bright red can tied to their tails, barking...
When he landed in Cuba, Columbus discovered "a dog that didn't bark." Barking, like kissing and sending Christmas cards, is a social habit fostered-for better or worse-by civilization. Wild dogs never bark, and among primitive peoples even house pets and hunting dogs seldom speak above a dignified growl...
...them, Chanza of Sunnyshane, was suddenly worth less last week just after he opened his mouth at the Basenji show. The hall was filled with a devastating hush, followed by hysterical female titters. "It was a most unfortunate noise," announced harassed Miss Williams, "but hardly a bark. It was a sort of woof." But TIME'S London bureau checked the question carefully with earwitnesses. Chanza, they reported, had definitely barked -"a wuffly bark," but a bark nonetheless...
...AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG (1,231 pp.)-Lesfer V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark-Crowell...
...edit or printers can print. The original edition of the mammoth American Thesaurus of Slang (TIME, March 2, 1942) had more than 100,000 words & phrases in it. By the time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...