Word: enrichments
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More blight than bright, the new acronyms are a kind of regression. They do not really enrich the language because they are words already. Still, they cap a fine old tradition that probably began with the Romans' SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee...
This year, however, with the House system still in the future, President Bunting effected some changes immediately. For the first time, a substantial amount of money became available for the undergraduates to use "to enrich College life." A $5,000 gift from Harvard, supplemented by donations from Radcliffe alumnae, went into the new President's Fund last Fall. Every dorm and off-campus house received $1 per resident to spend as the majority wished. While the students haggled over the relative merits of television sets, sewing machines, and pictures for the walls, Mrs. Bunting and her Advisory Committee appointed...
Lashing out at economists who "stand and clash on the basis of particular interests," Keyserling urged his colleagues to "either stop talking about the trying times and the need for action," or use their skills to set up a plan to enrich the poor, provide decent medical care and housing, and distribute surpluses to other countries. "There is no doubt that it can be done," he said...
Masked Folly. Neither king nor beggar was safe from his brush. "My favorite occupation," he said, "is to make others famous, to uglify them, to enrich their ugliness." He painted a world of fiends and skeletons, of ghoulish clowns and grinning, beak-nosed humans at their most frighteningly ridiculous. He became obsessed by carnival masks, used them, not to disguise mankind, but to highlight its folly. His famous The Entry of Christ into Brussels-with himself as Christ-is Ensor at his most devastating. Here, surrounding Christ, is a seething horde of pomposity-soldiers, millionaires, judges, art critics...
CHILDREN'S TREAT was ordered by Food and Drug Administration, which issued a new set of standards to enrich ice cream, the favorite U.S. dessert (18.7 Ibs. per person last year). Henceforth it must be richer, cleaner, and contain less air and water...