Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite butt of early TIME baiters was the distinctive and mannered style in which the magazine was written during its formative years. In a famous 1936 New Yorker parody, the late Wolcott Gibbs caricatured that style in the classic line: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences no longer run backward (or hardly ever), but the spoofs continue. More recently, The New Yorker commented on our occasional tendency to use active, colorful verbs, and claimed that people in our pages always "groan, coo, snarl, taunt, thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that...
...last-minute domestic tips from her mother and from Cook Zephyr Wright, of shopping excursions in Manhattan and Washington, of parties and showers, of picking silverware (Old Maryland pattern) and china (Ambassador Limoges). After accompanying her father on a fast one-day swing through Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky late last month, she appeared so wan in public that the White House explained that she was exhausted, not ill. Nonetheless, at a press conference a few days earlier, Luci had proved more than a match for her inquisitors...
...house well. It had been rented by the Chinese Communists as a residence for their diplomats and official visitors. The cops knocked on the door and shouldered their way inside. There, lying on the floor, was the body-alive. The man appeared to be a Chinese in his late 30s, and he was in intense pain...
...carried him to the Chinese mission, where police were powerless to enter. The Dutch Foreign Ministry immediately protested the kidnaping, but got only silence from Charge d'Affaires Li En-chiu. After two days, the protests gave way to an ultimatum that the Chinese release their prisoner. Too late. "I am afraid I cannot help you," Li declared. "Unfortunately, Mr. Hsu died in my office...
...shirt at a coffeehouse in Hamburg: "It's impossible to work during the day and gammeln at night." At that point, his companion had to leave the table for a minute. He explained that he had to call his mother and tell her he would be home late...