Word: hospodar
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...people like Dave Semenko, Brown, Ed Hospodar and Chris Nilan are fast becoming dinosaurs in the NHL. The silent majority of fans who want to watch goal-scoring instead of fisticuffs know it. Coaches who knowingly keep a defensive liability on their roster are being burned...
...knows if the limits have been reached? Just because the scientists split the atom, did they sit back and say, 'Well, that's it'?" The pioneering publisher could always push the limits a little farther by trying the notorious Story of O. or The Debauched Hospodar. But one of these days even Rosset may run out of material...
...looking for such nouns TIME has introduced some words into everyday speech. The best known is "tycoon" but there have been several others such as "pundit," "kudos," "moppet." We adopted "tycoon" in TIME'S early years after discarding "mogul" and "titan'' as too shopworn, and "hospodar" and "beglerbeg" as too obscure. We needed "tycoon" because otherwise our writers had to beat all around the vocabulary to describe a man of great wealth whose power and influence rivaled those of government heads. In "tycoon" (from the Chinese ta, "great," and kiun, "prince") the Japanese had a word...
Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...
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