Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Subway. On Monday of last week, a thin-nosed man with a humorously etched face, wearing crepe-soled sport shoes and a rumpled brown suit, got out of the plane which had flown him from Washington to New York. He sped by car to 2 Park Avenue, headquarters for the U.S. delegation to U.N. There at his desk he wrote a letter. He was Dr. Philip Jessup, onetime college professor and the State Department's top negotiator. He gave the letter to an aide, Albert Bender, to deliver to Yakov Malik, of the Russian U.N. delegation...
Professor Graton also goes west for his work--out to Yellowstone National Park and the geyser country. Last summer he wired up a cable with six electric thermometers, all recording simultaneously on a remote sheet of graph paper. He carried the device all over Yellowstone, and lowered it down the gullet of every geyser he could find...
...Park Avenue Talk. It was a month before the answer came: it was "not accidental." The Russians were willing to lift the blockade first, settle the currency problem at a meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. Thus began a series of guardedly friendly talks between Malik and Jessup in the Russian U.N. headquarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue. At week's end, they had informally discussed lifting the blockade, perhaps by May 15, had agreed to the U.S.S.R.'s single string to the offer: a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, probably in Paris...
...Merriam-Webster editors started collecting words in common use right after their last edition came out. Whenever they spotted or heard a new one, they immediately filled out a "citation slip" on it. Words that didn't get enough slips (e.g., car park) were put back in the file again, perhaps for next time...
...Hadden preferred the company of ragamuffins to that of stuffed shirts, liked to give and go to parties, once wound one up by setting out with an air rifle for a rat hunt in a friend's apartment. While editor of TIME he still played baseball in Central Park, or got up at 6 a.m. to play catch with his apartment janitor. But he had sublimated his ambition to be a baseball star into a desire to make $1,000,000 before he was 30. He also hoped one day to own the New York Yankees, or at least...