Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference's first day it became apparent where Yugoslavia stood on the issue between Communism and the West. U.S. Delegate Cavendish Cannon asked that English be added to Russian and French as official languages of the conference. Vishinsky smilingly retorted that most of the participating states "loved and understood the Russian language." Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler supported him vigorously-in Russian...
...grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...
Arrival in Babylon. "Never once did I feel like a stranger. Most New Yorkers speak as bad English as I do. They all understood me perfectly well. I tell the customs man I am a Brazilian professor proceeding to Vassar. One said to me: 'O.K., Prof. Got any Brazilian stamps?' I gave him some. He did not look at my baggage. They have a high opinion of professors in America...
...with celebrators. Jangling telephones brought in better & better news. Hero-worshiping neighbors crowded around as Duplessis sat in a corner chain-smoking and reading telegrams of congratulations. "We goes up!" bellowed a little butcher by the name of Dollar Bacon, "Maurice is the best we ever had. For French, English, Polish and every kind of peoples, he is the best. Gosh, that Maurice...
...they usually have (the great Paavo Nurmi won it twice). For the first few laps last week, it looked as if they were right. Nurmi's protégé, lanky Viljo Heino, set the pace, with a fellow Finn, Heinstrom, padding at his heels. Like a patient English housewife in a fish-market queue, Zatopek stayed politely back in about tenth or twelfth place. On the tenth lap, "he picked up speed, pounded past Viljo Heino and took the lead. At about the halfway mark Zatopek began lapping the stragglers; Heino, unable to keep up, stepped...