Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dreadful D campaign is the oldest device of all: crisis-making. Thus by sheer repetition, the hawkers suggest that the primary cause of air pollution is bad breath and that the real yellow menace is not Red China but stained teeth. And judging by Katy Winters' early-warning nose, half the nation needs to be told an Ice Blue Secret...
Asked why the commission on the sale of 100 shares valued at $80 a share was about two and a half times the fee on 100 shares of $17 stock, Bishop insisted that the former deal "involves significantly greater service for the customer." But when Rotberg inquired why the commission often varies on two orders involving identical amounts, Bishop ascribed the difference to more work by brokers when the number of shares traded is larger. Flourishing a chart of fees, Rotberg asked: "Why does the percentage of commission go down depending on the price of the security?" Replied Bishop...
...latest of a long series of warnings, the U.S. Public Health Service reported to Congress last week that a man between 25 and 35 who smokes two packs a day shortens his life by an average of eight years. It added that even a light smoker, on less than half a pack a day, may cut off four years...
...shifted his slippery ground. We have made no progress except the withdrawl of Lyndon Johnson. Instead we have Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. There is no solution in sight. The War could be stopped if one hundred million Americans stood and said: let's stop it. More than half the American people think it is a mistake, but they don't have the initiative or energy to stand up and do something. Let's do something before it is too late...
...male deer of the second, third, and fourth year? Or puns that require the knowledge that 'suitor' was pronounced 'shooter' and that 'parson,' 'person,' and 'pierce' were homophones? How many of you are familiar with words like kersey, farborough, caudle, inkle, thrasenical, and placket? You do know 'half' and 'capon,' but not in their meaning of 'wife' and 'love-letter.' And there is a parade of obscure proper names, Elizabethan slang, malapropisms, and sentences in both good and bad Latin. All of this makes the play an absolutely fascinating goldmine for the student of language...