Word: puckishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Refurart (referring to your article) "Oinc, Moinc, Soinc" [TIME, Sept. 10], perhaps the puckish Washington Post would enjoy estimating the thousands of man-hours . . . annually saved by frequent use of the 30-page abbreviation annex ... to the U.S. Naval Communication Instructions alone...
...puckish Washington Post has never liked the way the Navy writes English. Latest Post objection to Navy language: "the vice of agglutination" ("a practice which consists of taking anywhere from three to a half-dozen good, sound English words and combining them into a single misshapen word...
This week, 228 Weegee photographs and 9,000 Weegee words appear in a book, Naked City (Essential Books, $4), that O. Henry might have done if he had worked with a Speed Graphic. There is the same puckish humor, the same teary sentimentality. The book gives a first-rate reporter's picture of Manhattan...
...slight figure, wide grin and puckish face-unlike Willie's, his beard was no heavier than peach fuzz-was better known to the Fifth Army than General Mark Clark...
...have become meaningless-steamed undetected, through filthy weather, to within easy fighter-plane range (200 to 300 miles) of Tokyo. It was organized into the Fifth Fleet, under precise, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance. Its carriers again had become Task Force 58, and were under the command of slight, puckish Vice Admiral Marc Andrew ("Pete") Mitscher...