Word: funk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperately tried to kiss his mistress (and mother of his two children) through the grille of the visitors' room. Wilhelm Frick moaned: "All is finished, and there isn't much use waiting around." Goring read Bengt W. K. Berg's To Africa with the Migratory Birds. Funk (who had escaped with life) read Paul de Kruif's Men against Death...
...Walther Funk, President of the Reichsbank, Hitler's press chief and economic adviser; life...
...Short & the Long. Surveying the histories of several thousand psychoanalyzed patients, Psychoanalyst Joseph Wilder of Manhattan recently reported that there were few "cures," but "good results" (i.e., substantial improvement) in some 30-40% of the patients. About 20% of neurotics snap out of their funk without psychiatric treatment. Dr. Wilder's most significant finding: "brief psychotherapy," i.e., 30 to 40 sessions, produces just as good results as the prolonged orthodox treatment...
Since her daughter Sigrid's wedding, the event of the season, dignified Frau Hans Frank (her husband was the former governor of Poland) has been taking things easier, wining and dining only such close friends as Frau Wilhelm Frick and Frau Walther Funk...
Beneath them, in the audience at Washington's National Press Club, sat the three judges, with their copies of Funk & Wagnalls and Merriam Webster's International, the official sources (where the dictionaries differed, either spelling would do). Professor Harold F. Harding, the veteran "official pronouncer," threw a fast one at Mary: flaccid. Mary muffed the catch, spelled it phlaxid. John got it right, spelled the next word, too, semaphore, to cinch the national spelling championship...