Word: belled
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Constant Hazard. The very word acronym is a neologism, which a Bell Laboratories researcher created in 1943 from the Greek akros (tip) and onyma (name). By 1960, when the Gale Research Company of Detroit published the first edition of what is now called Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary (lumping wordlike acronyms with unpronounceable abbreviations) 12,000 of both were already on the loose. This summer's third edition will list more than 80,000. Nor is English the only language to be acronymized. The Library of Congress publishes a glossary of 23,600 Russian acronyms and abbreviations, ranging from...
...areas, cannot yet foresee even a minimum profit in it. There are legitimate questions, too, of how much a company can bend its quality control standards in order to hire and keep poorly educated workers. If they produce shoddy goods or sloppy services, then customers are inevitably penalized. The Bell System's commendable record of recruiting employees from the slums has contributed to the recent decline in telephone service...
Also, I knew the Baptist church tower, theme of the artist's Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night. That church tower was a masterpiece of Victorian gimcrackery. It was so downright, honestly ugly that, like George Arliss, it was positively beautiful. The sound of its bell, to paraphrase Poe, was "In the startled ear of night/ How it screamed out its affright!" I think that old tower perhaps may have had a soul, and Burchfield, like William Blake, was able to commune with such spirits...
...course, denied, but an attempt by antiwar groups to do anything similar could produce trouble. Ambassadors from the Woodstock nation promise a huge pot party on the Mall for the Fourth, threatening to appear with red, white and blue marijuana joints. Some will doubtless wear flag shirts and bell bottoms, the paraphernalia of their wholly different patriotism. Not everyone will appreciate the distinction...
...into a widely diversified empire. Thompson instituted independent divisions modeled on the General Motors system, became chairman in 1960 and raised Textron's sales from $383,188,000 to $1.7 billion before he retired in 1969. Today Textron has 33 divisions that make products as varied as Bell helicopters, Talon zippers, Sheaffer pens and Gorham silver. Textron at one point ran a cruise ship to Hawaii that managed to rack up staggering losses; Thompson had models of the ship made as a reminder to his executives that an acquisition-minded company could become too enthusiastic...