Word: cincinnatis
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...Cincinnati...
...around the year 1851, a Cincinnati wharf hand painted black crosses on boxes of Procter & Gamble candles so that illiterate workers could distinguish them. In time the cross became a star. Then a dozen more stars were added to signify the original 13 colonies, as well as a quarter moon with a human face, a popular image of the time. By 1882 the unusual logo had become Procter & Gamble's trademark...
...Gardner. The recipient of letters from Henry James, Emerson and Whittier could have sprung from the pages of Alice in Wonderland. She envied but one person in the world: the Dowager Empress of China "because, when someone displeased her, she could order, 'Cut off his head.' " In Cincinnati, a society reporter named Marion Devereux had incalculable influence over everything but her own prose style. A woman's gown was her "toilette"; on several occasions she referred to an enemy's appearance in a "lovely bead neckless"; bachelors were referred to as "young celibrates...
...second is that of Tom Seaver. Ten years a New York Met, he had been with the team through thick and thin, through two World Series and countless miserable finishes. In 1977, he was traded in mid-season to the Cincinnati Reds. The team unloaded their one superstar for a handful of unknowns because Seaver was demanding a fattened contract. Institutional loyalty was becoming increasingly old-fashioned. The ugly truth was out: Baseball's labor and management were perfectly willing to have money play the major determining factor in the once-pristine sport...
...while United Press International reporters, photographers and editors have aggressively battled their rivals at the Associated Press, U.P.I, itself has been battling for survival. Since 1975 the news service has had reported pretax losses of $32 million. Last year it was put up for sale by its owner, the Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co., which operates the Cincinnati Post and 50 other U.S. newspapers, plus six television and seven radio stations and six regional cable TV systems. Two serious bidders-the British news service Reuters and National Public Radio-failed to come to terms. Last week a buyer for U.P.I...