Word: cite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their own haughty spelling. They cite "vendors," "aviators," say that "welders" are machines...
Tanks. Obvious pet of Chrysler officials is the Chrysler Tank Arsenal (TIME, Jan. 20). They like to cite statistics on its vastness: five city blocks long and two wide . . . six and a half acres of window panes . . . 9,000 heavy machines, tools and fixtures installed . . . "here, just a year ago, stood a corn field." . . . Last week it was a whirring, clanking hive of millers, cutters, pressers and riveters (see cut). Eighty percent of the machines which Chrysler needs to step up its tank-production rate to 15 per day have already been installed. Meanwhile Chrysler has just received...
Aside from the beaming glee which the Judge takes in going around breaking jinxes all over the place, he has other colorful peculiarities. He "would as soon cite Shakespeare or Gilbert and Sullivan as some legal savant" to prove his point in court; he likes to bully that specie of man named "lawyer"-to "prick their sensibilities, to bait them and make them squirm"; and, (strangest eccentricity of all), "the breath of scandal has never remotely touched...
This is all that matters; and though in the debate over it both sides often cite the last war, the debate itself has really little to do with the last war. Sooner or later--and generally sooner rather than later--this debate boils down to the two positions about this war between which there is no rational reconciliation. War of any sort, says the one side, is so colossal an evil that it would be worse than anything which could happen to the American people in the event of a Hitler victory...
...week's end, not only dismissal but jail faced Dr. Selsam and 24 other members of the Teachers Union. Because they had refused, on advice of counsel, to testify at a private hearing before Senator Coudert, the legislative committee decided to cite them for contempt...