Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alarmed by the relative lethargy of local hygiene authorities and fearing for the health of their myriad readers, the editors of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily have unanimously decided that this afternoon and evening will be spent in a massive, dedicated campaign to conflscate all cranberries or cranberry sauces in the Boston area. Because this praiseworthy project will strike deeply at the paper's manpower, by supreme executive flat it has been declared that there will be no Crime tomorrow...
...muddy field, the Tigers outplayed the Crimson for most of the game. The Princeton offense was surprisingly well-coordinated in a myriad of puddles that slowed up passes and muffled shots. And the Tiger defense, led by goalie Mickey Michel, stopped every Crimson threat with tremendous all-out efforts...
...Burns, 50, president of the huge ($1.2 billion a year), kaleidoscopic Radio Corp. of America. Spectacled, stocky John Burns not only runs the biggest U.S. entertainment company, but a sprawling complex that is intimately involved in a dozen major fields, from space vehicles to atomic energy, contains all the myriad problems unique to scientists and scenarists, artists and admen...
...Cannon's career took the couple all over the world. During her travels, Mrs. Cannon became enamoured with Peking's Temple of Heaven ("some things no amount of praise will spoil"), acquired two Russian icons by Italian artists, made friends with eminent scientists of myriad nationalities, including Russia's Pavlov. She swears that her foreign languages remain abysmal, that she never bothers with grammar. Asked whether she lectured to Cambridge on return, she answered, "Oh yes. I afflicted everybody...
...Thomas Whitbread's "The Noble Reader and the Sight of Words." Actually more a prose poem than anything else, it describes the distraction which the image of words on a page can offer in an attempt to find their sense. Lightly philosophic, it is easy to read, despite the myriad images...