Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG (669 pp.)-Compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner - Crowell...
...that the trouble was a personal squabble between Chrysler's two top men. But when Newberg was asked if he and Colbert were still friends, he replied: "Yes, as far as I'm concerned." It hardly seemed likely at this late date that Colbert and New berg could clash with such finality. Few executives in U.S. companies have been closer...
...American slang. H. L. Mencken made his prodigious contribution (The American Language), and Lester Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark produced their useful but not fundamental compendium (The American Thesaurus of Slang). Standing up well against the competition, Dr. Harold Wentworth, editor of the American Dialect Dictionary, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Cornell and University of Louisville philologist, have produced a handy, invaluable reference work that may well emerge as the standard in the field. In short, the authors have done a remarkably fly and dicty...
...Traditionalist. At the entrance stands a creation by Robert Rauschen-berg-an old crate that rests on a post embedded in a sofa pillow and covered with bits of photographs and newspapers, crowned with a stuffed rooster and wired to light up like a juke box every few seconds. But at 34, Rauschenberg already finds that "I now run the risk of being an extremely traditional painter compared to the young people." Just as Rauschenberg lets his "paintings" grow into environment, the newcomers seem to be trying to suck the environment...
...Dark Fence detected two passes of what seemed to be an unknown space object. After detecting several passes during the following days, Captain W. E. Berg, commanding officer of Dark Fence, decided that something was circling overhead on a roughly polar orbit. He raced to the Pentagon and in person reported the menacing stranger to Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Within minutes the news was communicated to President Eisenhower and marked top secret...