Word: funke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much bluer the Danube is on their side of the Iron Curtain. Making the most of their fears, Klaus's campaign posters thunder about "the proof in black and white of the Red Volksfront menace." For good measure, some campaign managers have spread the news by Mund'funk (word of mouth) that the two Red parties are planning a putsch...
...urban life as a journalist in Manhattan, Russell headed north on the scent of some wave-swept map specks off Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose granite crest the great auk passed into extinction. Russell effectively translates for nonislomanes the mystical tug of the secret places offshore, "priceless monuments of primeval earth...
When he isn't off on some twentieth century crusade, Coffin tries to spend about four hours a day dispensing hard-headed advice to those who seek his counsel. He also thinks a lot. Early this summer he found himself "kind of in a funk" thinking about Vietnam...
...Wilfred J. Funk's listing of the ten most beautiful words in the English language [June 11] was a challenge to use them all in one short sentence. "The luminous mist rose from the murmuring brook at the hush of dawn with a melody like a tranquil lullaby of golden chimes...
Died. Wilfred John Funk, 83, master wordsmith and retired president of Funk & Wagnalls publishing house; of arteriosclerosis; in Montclair, N.J. (see PRESS...