Word: funke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LOST TRAILS, LOST CITIES (332 pp.)-Colonel P. H. Fawcett-Funk & Wag-nails...
...with the clumsy conjunction "and/or" that was forever popping up in legal documents, the Georgia state house of representatives turned lexicographer for a moment and solemnly invented a substitute, "andor.'' But would the new word stick? Commented Lexicographer Wilfred Funk: "A deliberative body cannot legislate into existence a new word. Words live or die according to how they are accepted. I do not think 'andor' can live...
Just threw down the disgusting, biased and contrary-to-fact telegram by H. Keith Thompson protesting TIME'S reference to Herr Hess, Doenitz, Raeder, Speer, Funk and Von Schirach as the "Seven Blackest Nazis." Congratulations, TIME, on keeping the record straight. For one, I urgently protest the tenor of Thompson's protest. As a matter of fact, I protest having to protest the protest...
...BLACKEST NAZIS STILL ALIVE" IS CONTRARY TO FACT, BIASED, AND SERVES TO PREJUDICE THE PENDING APPEALS FOR THESE MEN. RUDOLF HESS TOOK POSITIVE ACTION FOR PEACE EARLY IN WORLD WAR II. GRAND ADMIRAL DOENITZ AND ADMIRAL RAEDER WERE COURAGEOUS NAVAL LEADERS. BARON VON NEURATH, ALBERT SPEER, WALTER FUNK AND BALDUR VON SCHIRACH WERE FAITHFUL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS. ALL OF THESE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR DUTY AS THEY SAW IT AND THEIR MISFORTUNE LAY MERELY IN BEING ON THE LOSING SIDE ... A COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT AMERICANS HAS BEEN FORMED TO WORK FOR THE RELEASE OF THESE MEN AS WELL AS FOR FIELD MARSHALS...
...Frau Funk petitioned Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to grant them amnesty and was trying to enlist the support of some politicians in Bonn and of Cardinal Jo seph Frings, archbishop of Cologne. Busy with signing the peace, West German officials took little note of her plea...