Word: mon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mon, let's go to the Square!" one shouted...
When an Asian student attends an art class, for instance, he hears ostensibly sane Aussies discussing painting styles like mon (modern) and airpstrek (abstract). At lunchtime in the campus canteen, the visitor may hear a local student ask: "Gottiny semmitches?" "Air," says the counter girl. "Emeny jiwant?" Student: "Gimme utter martyr and an airman pickle." Thanks to the mare chick of communications, the girl duly produces a tomato and a ham and pickle sandwich...
...response to this situation, Rotterdam has completed the first phase of the world's most sophisticated, fully automated, air-pollution-warning system, which will soon be nationwide. It consists of 31 electric "sniffers," which mon itor sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere. Mounted on poles around 21 major plants, the sniffers filter SO, traces, translate hourly readings into" electric current and transmit the data to a central Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken computer located in the nearby town of Schiedam. If the SO., level rises above .5 parts per million, the computer sounds an alarm and an electronic map pinpoints the offending...
Phillippe Hautefeuille, head of the tiny Pans advertising agency that bears his name, had long been delighted to promote the wares of Airborne, a French furniture manufacturer. It came as a shock when he learned that the company could afford only a skimpy $50,000 for its 1969 campaign. "Mon dieu," recalls Hautefeuille, "a major impact was just not possible. But then I got to thinking. Whatever we did had to be audacious...
...least two Harvard and M. I. T. groups plan to canoe to isolated Mon-??moy Island off Cape Cod and then like nine miles down the beach for ?? 45-second wink of totality...