Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill was elected to Congress as Representative from the polyglot district that now embraces Boston's fashionable Beacon Hill, 36 colleges and universities, as well as the working-class neighborhoods of Cambridge, where his real power lies. His predecessor in the seat was John F. Kennedy, who moved to the Senate that year. When O'Neill went down to Washington, he made sure that his roots remained firmly planted in Cambridge. His wife Millie and their five children stayed at home in their modest house on Russell Street, just four doors away from the two-family house where...
...Britain. "We are out to preserve the integrity of the British people," claims Martin Webster, party head. "The multiracial experiment hasn't worked elsewhere and Britain is not going to be any more successful than anyone else has been. We're going to end up with a bastardized, polyglot nation with none of our culture left, and we refuse to let this happen...
Still, the most composed person in Ottawa was clearly Queen Elizabeth, who is titular head of the Commonwealth but takes no part in the discussions. A British newsman suggested to her at a reception that "Commonwealth" was a rather drab word to describe the vast polyglot community of nations represented at the talks. "Well," Her Majesty replied, "we used to have a different name...
Colonel Guy's F-4 fighter-bomber was shot down over Laos in 1968, and he was imprisoned in the "Plantation Gardens," a camp on the outskirts of Hanoi. Guy, 44, a stiff-backed professional officer, was appalled by what he found: more than 100 polyglot prisoners, Americans and others, civilians and servicemen. Though he was held in solitary much of the time. Guy issued orders by tapping in code on his cell walls. Men who, under torture or duress, had been cooperating with the enemy by making antiwar statements were told to taper off and eventually to desist...
...extras, angels and hellions, hookers and authors, Variety is holy writ, even if its writing often plays havoc with the English language. A lead story last week about efforts to clean up Times Square, also known as Broadway, carried this one-sentence socko para: "Specifically, Times Square's polyglot floating population, the porno pix and the massage parlors remain a hard-core hard-nose hurdle...