Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From war, science and industry he found hundreds of new words to define. There was guided missile (proyectil dirigido), G-man (agente secreto federal), high-fidelity (alta fidelidad), and 3-D (pelicula cinematográfica tridimensional). He had to translate babbittry (concepto de la moral y las costumbres de la clase media), flying saucer (platillo volador o volante), Hoosier (natural o habitante del estado de Indiana), and water wagon (sin tomar bebidas alcohólicas). Even some old words caused trouble. In no bilingual dictionary, for instance, could Williams find a definition of solitary confinement; he came across...
...hide out among the mountain Igorots, who used to be headhunters and were still not entirely reformed when Blackburn met up with them (other tribes in the vicinity were said to drink the blood and eat the hearts and livers of their enemies). One day when his superstitious, G-strung auxiliaries thought a red bird had flown into his jungle headquarters, Blackburn stood by anxiously as witch doctors studied the spleens of sacrificed chickens to see whether a new, unhexed camp would have to be pitched. When MacArthur finally returned, Blackburn's Bolomen mopped up the Japanese diehards...
...loss was the Crimson's tenth in the League against two wins while Yale has a 3-10 record. Overall, the Crimson's season total is 5-16, as against Yale's 3-19. The Harvard box score: Harvard G F TP Manning, f 5 3 13 Hurley, f 3 4 10 Hastings, f 5 2 12 Muncaster, f 0 0 0 Canty, c 5 8 18 Haughey, c 2 1 5 Barnett, g 3 3 9 Bulger...
...sending you most of my file on the eligibility care of Terrance McGovern. I thought I was doing a pretty fine thing for two boys in getting them as start toward a good education, but I seem to have been misunderstood. . ." (signed) Robert G. Anderson...
...ends the story of Robert G. Anderson...