Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Language in public relations must be dynamic. Old terms quickly become inadequate. Certain grammatical rules exist to facilitate this flexibility...
...labored tirelessly, skillfully and successfully to avoid a ruinous party blowup over civil rights. They had even contrived to put a Democratic stamp of sorts on civil rights legislation. Now Faubus had undone them-and Democratic politicians, in their acute embarrassment, could only pretend that Faubus did not exist. Lyndon Johnson became unavailable for comment. Grunted old Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any other man in history: "I'm not making any comment about segregation at all, my friend, one way or another. It's not my problem...
...Chinese Communists exist because the people permit, support and wholeheartedly fight with them," reported U.S. Foreign Service Officer John Stewart Service from China in 1944. "The common people for the first time have been given something to fight for." In this situation, said Service, the U.S. ought to alter its policy of supporting the Chinese Nationalist government lest it drive the Chinese Communists into the arms of the Kremlin. Last week, years after his favorable view of Chinese Communism was proved tragically wrong, Service, 48, was back at work in the State Department...
Ghostly survivals of Mussolini's "Second Roman Empire" still exist-the Bureau for the Colonization of Ethiopia, the Imperial African Transport Commission, the Commission for Control of Albanian Banks, etc. Under a decree of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1819, deriving from a contract made in 1594, the government still ceremoniously pays Naples $21 every year for the upkeep of military orphans. It still advertises old scholarships that pay 16?^ a year to the winner-even though it now costs 32?^ to apply. In the Rome recorder's office; all documents are still laboriously transcribed...
...ships swarmed with grenadiers and sharpshooters-and it was one of these, alongside Nelson's flagship Victory, who, recognizing the great captain dressed in "a blaze of colour," took aim and mortally wounded him with a single shot. Nonetheless, by midafternoon the Franco-Spanish line had ceased to exist, annihilated by "tactical superiority, mobility, rate of fire and dash...