Word: hl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintain a social structure as exclusive in its way as Mrs. Astor's, to whose balls they were of course never invited. Manhattan from the East 60s to the East 80s was their principality; Elberon. N.J., a summer watering place, became known as the Jewish Newport. Familiengefühl (family feeling) was their religion: the Seligman social calendar registered 243 anniversaries a year...
...Fingerspitzengefühl was a little off. When all the votes were counted, Erhard's Christian Democrats had won by more than 8% over their rivals. The C.D.U. polled 47.6% of the vote, up from 45.3% in 1961. The Social Democrats won 39.3% of the vote, for a gain of 3% . The only losers were Vice-Chancellor Erich Mende's Free Dem ocratic Party, whose percentage of the ballots slipped from 12.8% to 9.5%. The Christian Democrats elected 244 Deputies to the Bundestag, the Social Democrats 201, and the Free Democrats...
That Old Sprachgefühl. The result may pain purists, who will even find four-letter words ("usu. considered vulgar") in the new lexicon. They appear now because the most cultured (urbane, polished) Americans are used to earthier speech in fiction and drama. According to Merriam-Webster, even ain't is "used orally in most parts of the U.S. by many cultivated speakers." Nor could the editors fail to dig cool cats who make stacked chicks flip. Without drips and pads and junkies, who bug victims for bread to buy horse for a fix, the dictionary of 1961 would...
...nnhilde-that competitors ignorantly cribbed). They used a worldwide network of "word watchers"-avid amateurs with Sprachgefühl (feeling for speech), who constantly peruse novels, menus, labels, ticket stubs, and even small-town news paper accounts of obscure murders. The head of Merriam's own shipping department, for example, is the part-time scholar who netted piggyback, as used in railroad freight hauling...