Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps one of the most indicative-and amusing-effects of American influence has been the infiltration of American English into other languages. Japanese sometimes sounds like Japlish: masukomi for mass communications, terebi for TV, demo for demonstration and the inevitable baseballisms pray bollu, storiku and hitto. Franglais permits a Frenchman to do le planning et research on le manpowerisation of a complexe industrielle before taking off for le weekend in le country. German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry. And the latest expression in Frankfurt ad agencies...
...trim 190 Ibs., Ted Etherington looks like central casting's image of a dynamic businessman. Son of a New York public accountant, he graduated from Wesleyan in 1948, taught English there for a year, then went on to Yale Law School. Etherington served for a year as clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, later went to work for a Wall Street law firm that specialized in investment problems. Eventually he moved on to serve as secretary and vice president of the Big Board under Funston. He was named head of Amex...
Frenetic Blessing. Neither the nation's business nor its social life could have assumed today's form without the airlines. "Of all the inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted," wrote English Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1848, "those which abridge distance have done the most for the civilization of our species." The age of commercial jet travel, not yet eight years old, has not only shriveled distance to a degree far beyond Macaulay's vision, but has spread that frenetic blessing to hundreds of millions of people...
...Mann, an academically demanding private day school in The Bronx, which was run by his father for 30 years. Explained the school newspaper: "Till can't get high marks because his father is headmaster; Till can't get low marks because his father is headmaster." A scholarship English major at Brown University ('32), Tillinghast also was second-string center on the football team. His big moment came when he blocked a Colby punt in 1932, producing a safety in a game Brown won 22-0. After that, classmates called him "TwoPoint Tillinghast...
...Bank of England's action will provide short-term relief for the pound by attracting back to English banks some of the money that has been siphoned off owing to more attractive interest rates elsewhere and uncertainty over the pound. But in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harold Wilson hinted that for the long term further austerity measures may be necessary...