Word: quids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indo-China. In a series of carefully mortised negotiations from Saigon to Washington to Paris, Dulles persuaded the French government to promise General Henri Navarre enough troops to carry out "the Navarre Plan" for defeating the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. The U.S.'s quid for France's quo: a promise of $385 million in aid over the next year for the war in Indo-China. Under Dulles' pressure France also gave assurances of independence to the native states of Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. This meant that Indo-Chinese nationalists were no longer faced with...
Standing in front of a huge slide picture of a Roman citizen, a Latin professor was putting his class through its paces. "Quid est?" said he, pointing to the Roman's eye. "Oculus," chirped the class. "Quid est?" continued the professor. "Pes," answered the class. Actually, the students knew all about pes and oculus already: they were Latin teachers of many years' standing. But last week at the University of Michigan, they did not mind starting from scratch, learning the latest teaching methods of a linguistics expert named Waldo Sweet...
Sweet builds up vocabulary by using slides. The "Quid est?" routine is only the beginning. "Juvenis oculum gerit" Sweet will suddenly say. "Juvenis pedem gerit . . . Juvenis manum gerit." Gradually the class begins to realize that "gerit" means "has"-until Sweet leaps ahead again. "Juvenis vestum gerit . . . Juvenis gladium gerit . . . Juvenis bellum gerit." By that time, the class realizes that gerit" has a whole "area" of meanings, from "has" to "hold" to "wage" to "wear...
...slides, adding more case endings and turning to prepositions. "Puer ignem ramo facit," says Sweet, showing a boy making a fire with a branch. "Puer ignem cum fratre facit," he says, showing a boy and his brother lighting a fire. "Quis facit?" he asks. "Puer," says the class. "Quid puer facit?" "Ignem." "Quomodo facit...
Underpaid. In Melbourne, Australia, in the hospital for removal of two razor blades swallowed on a bet, Seaman Albert Graham told doctors: "It was a silly thing to do for only two quid [$4.48]. It was worth at least a fiver...