Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drunkard is not "a moral and social outcast" - though many church people have taken that unchristian view, says the Rev. Alson J. Smith of St. Paul's Method ist Church, Brooklyn. An alcoholic is "someone who could be helped and [is] worth helping...
...Cass Timberlane now acquired new importance, that was chiefly due to the fact that the hundreds of thousands of men & women who would read his new novel had, while he was writing it, made the U.S. the No. 1 power in the world to which (with Novel ist Upton Sinclair) he was America's No. 1 interpreter...
Lieut. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, 59, newly appointed commander of the Tokyo area, already had on hand his own crack 11th Airborne Division, commanded by Major General Joseph M. Swing, and some infantrymen of the 27th Division. This week tens of thousands more (including the dismounted ist Cavalry Division) landed from transports, swelling the body of troops toward the 500,000 or more who will land in weeks to come on the sacred soil. The occupation of Japan had begun...
Mumbling about what happens to the "hypothalamic proclivities" when they are released through concussion from "the higher control of the cortex," the special ist began to draw the marks of the wound on a scratch pad. "A person in this state," he concluded, "may find ... his disability offers a convenient escape from responsibilities, you understand...
General Huebner, who rose from a buck private, commanded the ist Infantry on the Normandy beaches. In Germany, he was known for his ability to get on with the Russians. They presented him with a tattered flag from Stalingrad. Czechoslovakia's President Benes also decorated...