Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booing) at the umpire's ruling: Quist had forfeited the point by touching the net. After that, Quist fell apart, watched flat-footed as Schroeder's aces whistled past, lost the final two sets 6-0, 6-0. Up in Row P, a lady murmured: "Cruel, isn...
...language Joe speaks-English . . ." Billy complained that when the average European goes to the opera, he feels that he's going to the theater, "but when Joe Citizen in this country is shoehorned into a tuxedo, he feels that he's going to a concert. Joe isn't interested in the plot because he doesn't know what the plot is all about, and the stilted jabberwocky in the printed libretto only confuses him further...
...leaders in the competition are Gazio, Air-Pic, Opalook, I.C. and Kaladio. The top contender-Dekko-was borrowed from cockney slang. In the vernacular, dekko† means look (e.g., "Let's have a dekko at it") True to the leisurely traditions of many British contests, the Daily Express isn't sure just when it will announce the winner-maybe this week; maybe later...
...nine old men," Hughes reacted, in public at least, with Jovian calm. But he quietly and effectively fought F.D.R.'s effort to pack the court. When Roosevelt stood before him to be sworn in for a precedent-breaking third term, Hughes whispered through his beard: "Franklin, isn't this becoming a trifle monotonous?" A few months later, at 79, he resigned as Chief Justice and retired to a quiet life of quiet honors...
...Slanted Selectivity." Some of Sprigle's findings, Carter conceded, were "tragically true. But . . . anyone who tours the South with a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People isn't going to find anything good there ... it [the N.A.A.C.P.] isn't interested in the evidence of improvement of relationships within the framework of segregation, for its dominant objective is the destruction of that framework...