Word: murrays
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Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart joined Wynn for an exclusive interview, in which Sadat revealed for the first time the background of events that led to his memorable decision. The profile of the Egyptian President's personal, private side was written by National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemaian, who spent many hours with Sadat. The story on Egypt's culture and economy was reported by Correspondent William Stewart and written by Gerald Clarke. Two other figures made major writing contributions to the section: Anwar Sadat and Henry Kissinger, Senior World Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and Susan Reed...
...edition has been available since 1971, but requires a magnifying glass to read. The eyestrain is well earned. The enterprise of the full dictionary engaged the labor of hundreds-editors, subeditors, voluntary readers-over more than half a century. The greatest of the dictionary's editors, James A.H. Murray, died in 1915, while finishing up the letter T, 13 years before the last of the Zs (zymurgy and zynder) went into print. But in 35 years of leadership, Murray laid the plan for the dictionary and edited half of it. Murray more than anyone else established...
Samuel Johnson, in his own idiosyncratic dictionary, defined lexicographer as a "harmless drudge." Murray was a delightful drudge of enormous energy. Born in a small Scottish village and largely self-taught (a process that saved him from mere pedantry), Murray could pick up languages as if he were shopping for groceries. For a time a schoolmaster and later a London bank clerk, Murray was drawn into the dictionary project by his work with the Philological Society. In his "Scriptorium," a room lined with hundreds of pigeonholes stuffed with more than 5 million quotation slips, Murray presided like a medieval abbot...
...Murray's granddaughter, K.M. Elisabeth Murray, has written a biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself-grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity and scholarship. Aside from personal difficulties, writes Miss Murray, James faced thousands of odd problems. He found a special class of "ghost words," misspelled or ill-defined items that had been admitted to some previous dictionary, thus undergoing an illegitimate birth. He worried over a word like condum (sic), later judged "too utterly obscene" for inclusion...
...Murray maintained a huge correspondence, sometimes writing 40 letters a day; his mail went, he said, "to Lord Tennyson to ask where he got the word balm-cricket and what he meant by it; to the Sporting News about a term in horse-racing, or pugilism; or the inventor of the word hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought...