Word: comma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan ad agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, as though cut to its professional quick, hastily disclaimed any responsibility for so much as a comma of the Eisenhower-Dulles effort...
Dreiser v. Proust. The new trainee is not allowed to write. He copies books of Lowney's choice-Joyce. Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos and Raymond Chandler. Says she: "They copy the story from comma to comma, from cover to cover. It helps their typing and helps them forget themselves." No writer dares copy anything else. One disgruntled ex-trainee remembers being caught with a copy of Proust, which "Lowney snatched from me, ripped up and threw away. 'I didn't tell you to read that,' she shouted. 'Your God-damned style's too intellectual...
...Senate could hardly have been more serene. Debate on the natural-gas bill (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.) was nearing an end, the opposition was wheezing its last, the votes to pass the bill seemed well in hand. When South Dakota's comma-conscious Republican Senator Francis Case rose to speak, it was the signal for other Senators to burrow deeper into their newspapers or strike up desultory conversation with their neighbors. But by the time Francis Case sat down, he had shaken the Senate to its foundations...
...period was only a comma, however, for Joe had in mind something other than merely parading his fiscal virtue: apologies from the question-asking Hennings subcommittee and from the Watkins censure committee. It would follow, he thought, that the whole Senate should take back its censure action...
...they say 'Trade Union Statesmen Gather in Miami'?" Meany. a cigar clamped in his teeth, sat at the piano and ripped off jazz melodies. The C.I.O.'s Carey put on a shirt printed with the labels of all A.F.L. unions. By noon the last comma was in place, and the full committee of 20 A.F.L. and C.I.O. men met on the Ivy Terrace for a steak lunch. Then newsmen were called in, drinks passed around, and the great news was announced...