Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black issues an edict: the illegal O, whether upper or lower case, must vanish from the language. Doctor becomes dctr, books are bks, clockshop, clckshp; saying cockadoodledoo aloud would be tantamount to fomenting rebellion. The docile natives of Ooroo, now renamed "R," try hard to talk the new gibberish. A by tells a girl she sings like a chir of riles, and gets slapped. Lads studying Igic at schl recite: "Mist is always mist, but what is mist isn't always mist.'' Peple can n Inger tell rot from root. Babies make as much sense as their...
...This edict may seem unfair--particularly since it applies even if the seaweed threatens to float away before Monday--but it is not a demonstration of the irrational malice of the local judiciary. The ruling merely upholds the state's Sunday Blue Laws...
...that League President Giles went back to the rule book once more. The good book, Giles discovered, prohibits a pitcher from spitting on his glove or on the ball; it prevents him from rubbing the ball on his clothing or defacing it in any way. But there is no edict against spitting on the fingers and then drying them off. Pontificated Giles: "Burdette was using smart psychology." He kept right on using it against the Redlegs last week while he beat them, 5 to 4, for the ninth straight time. Whenever he was in trouble he went to his mouth...
Worthy pointed out that although the United States boasts about its free press, "our press has bowed to an edict." "Nothing this ambiguity, "the rest of the world asks 'who are you to talk about the press of other countries?' From their point of view it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black," he added...
Worthy and two Look Magazine correspondents still face possible legal action and passport revocation because of their disregard of the State Department edict that their passports were invalid in Red China...