Word: dialectic
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...varsity letter, ad the base of the shield consequently squared off to conform with the shape of the paper (and the wit of the administration). With this further revision the Veritas Committee itself would thus be assured that there will no longer be any foreign language in our official dialect...
Still active at 74, Von Frisch has now reported his latest discovery: subspecies of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) have a language, or dialect, all their own that cannot be understood by or taught to other subspecies. Explaining his findings before the Austrian Academy of Science...
...evitable cigarette into his mouth for an occasional drag. He almost barked, "Take the baby away from me now!" as soon as he saw that it was alive though blue from oxygen deprivation. While he stitched up the mother, he snapped at the nurses in their own Shan dialect - they were having difficulty, even using oxygen, in getting the baby to breathe. When the baby gasped its first, faint squawks, tough old Surgeon Seagrave's relief was as obvious as that of the softest hearted televiewer...
...curtain rose on a heath full of shaggy, diabolical hags hurling harsh-mouthed imprecations into the night. Their wild language was a witches' brew of medieval Bavarian dialect, laced with great lumps of Latin and Greek; in the background, no fewer than 20 different percussion instruments fired the cauldron with a tingling, thwunking cacophony. Anyone wandering into Stuttgart's Opera House last week would have quickly recognized, in both words and music, the style of Germany's most highly regarded living composer, Carl (Carmina Burana) Orff, 65. Less obviously, the dark, demonic and shatteringly effective scene...
Finley Peter Dunne, whose Mr. Dooley is the alltime choice of many political connoisseurs, swaddled his man in an Irish dialect that magically permitted him to speak his mind. He once called John D. Rockefeller "a kind iv society f'r th' prevention iv croolty to money," and had a skill at reworking slogans that has turned up again in Sahl. "Hands acrost th' sea and into somewan's pocket," said Dooley. Sahl rallied for Ike with the line: "He kept us out of Mars...