Word: nah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work. At the "art meeting" where the New Yorker's famed cartoons are bought, there is a pad, pencil, ashtray and knitting needle at each place-the last "for pointing at faulty details in pictures. Ross rejects pictures firmly and rapidly, perhaps one every ten seconds. 'Nah . . . nah . . . nah.' . . . Now and then Ross gets lost in the intricacies of perspective. 'Where am / supposed to be?' he will unhappily inquire. ... If nobody can say exactly where Ross is supposed to be, out the picture goes...
...Tsunami (pronounced (tsu-nah'-mee) is a Japanese term favored by seismologists over the popular but inaccurate "tidal wave." Literal translation: seismic sea-wave...
...other convoys will be different. Ours was the first. The sun was burning through the morning fog at Myitkyina [pronounced Myit-chi-nah] when we set out, 100-odd vehicles in line. The American drivers, white and colored alike, the Chinese engineers, were especially selected from units that had slaved to build the road...
...approaching newly conquered territory, where the Jap had obligingly helped out by maintaining a surfaced road from Kamaing to Mogaung, there joining the railway and highway to Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch'-i-nah). From Myitkyina it could go two ways: through jungle track northeast to Lauh-kaung, south to Tengyueh, east to Burma Road; or it could go south from Mogaung to Bhamo, northeast to Tengyueh. The battle's course would dictate the choice...
...terrific task: it meant fighting and building his way through hundreds of miles of trackless country, across mountains and through jungles. Last week, within 50 miles of Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch-i-nah), the goal whose capture would make his campaign a success, the Japs made a savage attempt to stop...