Word: latinizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America one of the common metaphors for relations between the United States and its 21 "sister republics" is a shark eating up all the little sardines. The present struggle over election of a new secretary general for the Organization of American States has proved that if enough of the sardines get together, they can at least frustrate the shark's appetite...
...Central American Common Market and its successes have contributed to the new-found political independence and solidarity of these countries. Highly placed American policy makers see this kind of political cooperation as a basically healthy development. They hope that the formation of a continental common market for all of Latin America will foster the same sort of cooperative spirit. Or that is what they say they hope...
...government made it very plain whom it favored as the new secretary general of the OAS. Galo Plaza announced his candidacy for the post immediately as he emerged from Dean Rusks' office. They had had a long talk. Among Latin Americans, Plaza is considered very Americanized. He was raised in the States, educated here, and even played football for the University of Maryland. Since the assistant secretary general and the secretary for economic and social affairs of the OAS--the number two and three posts--traditionally go to Americans, many Latins are hesitant about giving their approval...
Harvard audiences have heard Borges recite Latin, French and German extemporaneously and translate all into flawless English. He quotes as readily from The Divine Comedy as from Beowulf. He has taught graduate students Anglo-Saxon, lectured at the University of Texas, made a hobby of Old Norse poetry and extended his metaphysical range to Egypt to Arabia to China...
Preventing Disease. From this discovery, Funk correctly theorized that chemical substances which he named vitamines (from the Latin vita for life and amine for chemical compounds containing nitrogen) were capable of preventing deficiency diseases such as scurvy, pellagra and rickets, and indeed were essential to the sustenance of healthy life. The assumption that all vitamins contain nitrogen later proved wrong, and the e was dropped...