Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps last week declared flatly that Britain could not integrate her economy with Europe's "in any manner that would prejudice" Britain's responsibilities toward the Commonwealth and the sterling area. In plain English, Cripps was saying "count me out" to any further plans for economic union...
Paxton's chauffeurs managed, with wire and rope, to get the jeep to a mud-hut village. There the local garrison commander, who had taught himself English in order to listen to BBC broadcasts and read the Reader's Digest, put his men to work and all but rebuilt the jeep overnight...
From his banyan-shaded terrace, friendly, fleshy, Albano Oliveira, governor of Portugal's tiny colony of Macao, watched purple-sailed junks sailing in from nearby China. He recalled a passage written more than 200 years ago by an English visitor...
...school year moved into full swing, Hungarian students of all ages were struggling with the outlandish Cyrillic alphabet, the baffling prodigies of Russian grammar. Last term, when language courses were still optional, 53% of them chose German, 30% English, 29% French, and only 3% Russian. Now, with the study of Russian compulsory in all grades of primary and secondary schools, pupils are required to spend more time learning "the language of socialism" than any other subject except Hungarian language and literature...