Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times's Arthur Krock noted that the talk among Democrats in Washington was not so much about foreign affairs or domestic labor troubles as about the President's popularity and whether it was falling off. Pundit Krock thought it was. The Wall Street Journal reported that Harry Truman's performance as a peacetime President "is beginning to cause alarm among some of his ... advisers." And Business Week, which had looked uneasily on Franklin Roosevelt for twelve years, came right out and said that what the country apparently needs is "a return to one-man government...
...looking for such nouns TIME has introduced some words into everyday speech. The best known is "tycoon" but there have been several others such as "pundit," "kudos," "moppet." We adopted "tycoon" in TIME'S early years after discarding "mogul" and "titan'' as too shopworn, and "hospodar" and "beglerbeg" as too obscure. We needed "tycoon" because otherwise our writers had to beat all around the vocabulary to describe a man of great wealth whose power and influence rivaled those of government heads. In "tycoon" (from the Chinese ta, "great," and kiun, "prince") the Japanese had a word...
...Palme Dutt, half-Swedish, half-Hindu Communist pundit, who is opposing Leopold S. Amery, Secretary of State for India, in Britain's general election, came felicitations from an eminent Indian wellwisher. Newly released after three years in jail, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu nationalist, paused briefly in Bombay to wire Dutt luck on his pluck. Dutt's chances of election: virtually...
Colonel John R. (Tex) McCrary, 34, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror and onetime son-in-law of Hearst's late Pundit Arthur Brisbane; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Cried Radio Pundit Raymond Gram Swing: "China is going through its worst scandal of the war. It is a gold scandal, and arises from insiders, with high Government connections, making a cleanup when the price of gold was officially raised on March 28. ... The gold involved . . . is part of the $500,000,000 this country loaned to China. . . . Fortunes have been made. . . . There is strong pressure on the Government ... by public opinion...