Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After a quick look at photographs of Princess Margaret and Husband Tony taken during her 32nd birthday party in Abbeyleix, Ireland last week. London's Daily Mirror assumed that she was, bannered: ANOTHER BABY FOR MARGARET. The princess' press officer, besieged by queries, refused to confirm or deny the story. "I simply don't know," he muttered. "To ask the princess herself would be impertinent...
Merely a Prelude. In Before My Time Tucci suggests (and his publishers confirm) that the book is merely a prelude to a series of autobiographical novels. But Tucci takes far too long to make his biographical points. Again and again he shows the same characters playing the same emotional parts: the domineering old woman, the haplessly childish daughter, the faintly struggling son-in-law. Each family anecdote would make a good (if somewhat bloated) New Yorker sketch. But, because only members of a family have limitless interest in family idiosyncrasies, the sum of Before My Time is interminably less than...
...clerics who are also squires), long words (honorificabilitudinity, meaning merely "honor"), and grim words (heresy originally meant merely "private opinion," and in the shift of meaning to "private, sinful error" can be read a whole history of religious persecution). Sometimes he errs; the grisly U.S. neologism "finalize" means to confirm a tentative decision-not to finish. But the book is delightful, and to say more of its faults would be to make mountains of oontitoompses (Gloucestershire rural slang for molehills...
Merely predicting cavity risks is nothing new. But Dr. Rapp and officials of the Chicago Dental Society believe the wax chew test will be particularly helpful. Its color changes appeal to kids and help to demonstrate the value of mouth hygiene. And if broader trials confirm the saliva test's predictive value, it will show dentists whether a child's teeth need a protective painting with a fluoride solution...
...uprising has to fold up. What do you think, that Great Britain and the United States-the most powerful state in the world-will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean Sea! Nonsense. And we have no navy." Djilas' personal impressions of Stalin confirm the cruel portrait drawn previously by others. No man was obscure enough to escape Stalin's barbs; once, recalls Djilas, it was a waiter whom Stalin forced to share a toast at a diplomatic reception as a "grotesque expression of Stalin's regard for the common people." Most surprising...