Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developed the ballistic missile V-2 for the Nazis-and at least one reporter doggedly held the scientist responsible. "How do you feel now about your work during the war and its effects on my country?" "I greatly regret the abuse of science, but there is an old English saying, 'My country, right or wrong,' and that goes for Germany too." Later in his visit, the missileman's tone was softer. "There are still many scars in people's hearts," he said. "London has always been my favorite city. I want to say how sorry...
...will screen 150,000 high school seniors aspiring to some 250 colleges in 14 states. Results will go to the student, his school, the colleges of his choice. Price per student: $3, half the usual College Board fee. Another difference: the most widely used board test covers ability in English and math; ACT tests ability in English, math, social studies and natural sciences. Ostensibly, ACT is not competing with the board. With all freshmen due to jump from 711,000 this year to 1,267,000 by 1969, both organizations are likely to share ample business for years to come...
...wonder is that booming Puerto Rico, an island with some 700,000 English-speaking residents, 1,500 new settlers (plus 230,000 tourists) from the U.S. each year, and a growing movement for U.S. statehood, has not a single English-language daily newspaper. San Juan's big Spanish daily, El Mundo, tried the idea twice, most recently in 1957, dropped the venture when circulation failed to exceed 7,000. Last week there was another entrant: U.S. Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles (Look magazine, Des Moines Register and Tribune) announced publication of an English-language daily, the San Juan Star. First...
...Massachusetts-born journalist, who in 1953 started a weekly newsletter in San Juan for businessmen interested in the island. The tabloid Star will be printed six days a week on the presses of El Impartial, San Juan's second Spanish daily, will be aimed more at English-speaking residents than tourists. Hoped-for circulation: 15,000 in eight months...
...casual neighbor might well have regarded as simply an embittered, ill-tempered old cigar maker, pathetically attached to his past friendship with the great labor leader, Sam Gompers. But in Moss Hart's telling, he becomes "an Everest of Victorian tyranny," the black sheep of a wealthy English-Jewish family, who married beneath his station-his wife could neither read nor write. Of an evening in their shabby flat, he would read Dickens to the illiterate woman-and punish her with awful silence if something displeased...