Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piano's a piano, a haircut's a haircut and organized charity is a vast, competitive business. To a million or more natives of Melanesia in the South Pacific, a piano is a big-fellow-bockiss-you-fight- him-teeth-belong-im-now-bockiss-he-cry. A Melanesian haircut is cut-im-grass-belong-head-belong-me. The only way most Melanesians can communicate with each other or with white men is by a bastard mixture of French, German, English, tribal dialects and baby-talk called pidgin. But when trouble strikes in Melanesia, pidgin is all that...
...fellow educators gave him a respectful hearing-and a thorough looking-over. Said the president of a state university: "An astute, middle of the road speech, just the kind Ike's trustees and colleagues wanted to hear. Ike obviously doesn't know a good goddam about education-but then, who does...
...some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take the place of religion. It tries to prevent mental illness and to "minister to a mind diseased." It is essentially optimistic and believes that man can learn to live at peace with himself and his fellow...
There is not a touch of the Hollywood-style, burning-eyed psychiatrist about Dr. Will as he greets friends or patients. He has a hearty Chamber-of-Commerce handshake (he belongs to the Topeka C. of C.), looks and acts like the safe kind of fellow a lonely traveler would pick to talk to on a Pullman club car. He lives with his attractive, intelligent wife (who teaches child care at Topeka's Washburn Municipal University) and three sons (Roy, 22, now at New York-Cornell University Medical College, Phil, 20, and Walter, 17) in an eleven-room, white...
...Shelf. Appliance sellers, among the hardest hit by the Government's credit curbs, complained that refrigerators were backing up on them; radio stores were only saved by the boom in television sets. A West Coast furrier, on a scouting trip to New York, discovered that his fellow furriers were keeping their stockrooms bare, rushed home and cut his prices 15-20%. Shoe manufacturers, some of whom had already cut production, were also talking of post-Christmas price cuts as high as $1 a pair. Many another manufacturer who last year had to stall off customers was now ready...