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Word: englisher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oldest U S priest, and said he would like to "enter every home, to greet personally every man and woman, to caress every child." Failing that, he said, "permit me to express my sentiments in the lyrics of your own song," and then, in his sturdy and serviceable English, quoted from America the Beautiful: "And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...could make seem charming. He addressed 60,000 at Shea Stadium in four of the seven languages he speaks with facility? English, Spanish, Italian and of course, Polish (French, Latin and German are the other three) and drew applause by simply pronouncing place names with theatrical timing, greeting the crowds "from Long Island? and New Jersey? and Connecticut [pronouncing all three c's]? and [long pause] Broke-leen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...English Department, however, has come through this year with a more inspired showing. All 33 English faculty members are leading tutorials, 13 of them junior tutorials. The department had traditionally involved most of its faculty in tutorials, so once again, the legislation has led to mild reform, not revolution...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: An Untutored Faculty | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

Because most professors opted to directsenior theses, the number of students actually affected by the reforms is, as Bowersock puts it, "not huge." In English, for instance, professors will tutor only 52 students...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: An Untutored Faculty | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

Problems of translation--either from Russian to English, or from a culture that lived under Stalin to one that knows it only by report--retard Voinovich's humor, and thus his point, in the rest of the story...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Slavic Deadpan | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

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