Word: cornelis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinning a new language into the U.S. ear. It is something like English, but it has a grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of its own. It grows out of a rich compost of dialects heard at Lindy's and the Stork Club, in the hominy-grits-and-corn-pone belt and around Hollywood and Vine. It is calculatedly lowbrow: and out of the mouths of M.C.s, comedians, interviewers, children's hosts, singers and announcers, it has become a powerful influence on American speech. Critic Clifton Fadiman calls it Televenglish...
...girl in a sickle moon suspended high above the audience and tossing down garters and other pretty trinkets. But only at her first appearance, coming-with snow on her picture hat-into a restaurant filled with ghostly elegance, to dine alone, to struggle with asparagus and be rebuffed by corn, to clip a lobster's claws and dip gloved fingers in a finger bowl-only then does Lillie achieve a definitive grandeur de folie, or the Follies recapture the grandeur that was Rome...
...Pnompenh, the capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious integration, American dredges were soon filling in ground for a Russian hospital, and U.S. farm machinery was being used to boost the corn and peanut crop for export to Red China...
...neither corn nor peanuts that China's Chou En-lai paid a visit to Cambodia last November. Sihanouk gave him the royal bed, and Chou blanketed the country with Communist propaganda. Cambodian newspapers began charging the U.S. with setting up military bases in the country. The local Chinese colony, seeing the royal favor conferred on Chou, began shifting its allegiance to Peking. Communist agents delivered money and mortars to Mekong River pirates raiding the borders of neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam. But perhaps Sihanouk's biggest mistake was to permit, in his onetime 100% Sihanouk Parliament...
...corn Wait for the last mummer, dread...