Word: host
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUNTRY HAPPENING (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans play host to Michael Landon and Bobby Goldsboro...
...conjunction [Aug. 22], a hangman's noose would have been the appropriate end for Elyot, Shakespeare, Smollett, Southey, Newman, Washington Irving, Darwin and William Morris (of Morris chair fame, not the dictionary's editor). Edmund Spenser should perhaps have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members of the industrial-military complex. And since erratas reflects ignorance of Latin, Jonathan Swift was the Dean of ignoramuses. How good that...
Most well-scrubbed Americans would be horrified at the idea of having mites crawling around on their faces. Yet almost half the U.S. population may play host to microscopic parasites, which reside in the facial hair of jet-setters and slum dwellers alike. This is the finding of Manhattan Ophthalmologist Jerry Jacobson. He and Australia's Dr. Frank English reported at a New York Hospital conference that among recent adult patients, 40% had mites clinging to the roots of their eyelashes...
...differences, Griffin is still presiding over the same sort of desk-and-sofa setup that Dave Garroway, Steve Allen and Jack Paar popularized years ago. As Griffin sees it, "With three of us in there every week night, it will be a game of 'Pick Your Host.' " Or more likely, "Pick Your Guest." During premiere week, a dial spinner could have tuned in Carson confronting Groucho Marx, Bill Cosby, Romy Schneider, Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, and Rowan and Martin. Bishop trotted out such West Coast Establishmentarians as Ruth Gordon, George Burns, Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Eddie Fisher, Rick...
Bastard Twins. Asked about the use of host as a transitive verb, as when Johnny Carson "hosts" the Tonight Show, Princeton Historian Eric F. Goldman wrote: "This is TVese and public-relationese, hardly an improvement over the English language." On the use of like as a conjunction, like in the Winston cigarette syndrome, Writer John Kiernan commented: "Such things as these persuade me that the death penalty should be retained." Isaac Asimov, the lucid science writer, also denounced finalize as "nothing more than bureaucratic illiteracy-the last resort of the communicatively untalented...