Word: deac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a severe attack of influenza, he went to the Southwest to recuperate and wrote a dozen travel pieces about his trip. "They had a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out," remembers Scripps-Howard's Editor in Chief George B. ("Deac") Parker. When Ernie proposed that he become a permanent roving reporter, Mellett and Parker agreed...
Editor Parker's own loose writing made a field day for World-Telegram copy-readers. They changed "Why 'the month of?" to plain "Why?", substituted "conciseness" for "loose word consciousness," struck out some phrases altogether. When they had finished, "Deac" Parker's 185-word directive had been trimmed and tightened to 96 words...
Month ago Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth acquired the title of DRAOCCCR-BAR, New Deal for Director of Radio Activities in the Office for Coordination of Commercial & Cultural Relations Between the American Republics. In plain English: chief of the radio sector of the Hemisphere Solidarity campaign...
...Deac Aylesworth's immediate job is to let as much light as possible into the murk beclouding the average U.S. citizen's notion of life Down There; also to see that southbound programs do not conflict, hurt anybody's feelings or suffer from the dreary blight of what is known as "education"-in general, to make them make sense...