Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor dispute. Listeners to a recorded Harry Wismer sportscast on station KECA were startled when a fierce masculine voice suddenly broke in: "I interrupt this program to bring you a special message. I am the recording engineer making this transcription and I am using this means as a last resort to expose a vicious KECA racket...
Best of the lot is the long essay " 'Lars Porsena,' * or the Future of Swearing and Improper Language." "Keep obscene or indecent language as a last resort," warns an ancient but sensible Chinese handbook on swearing etiquette. "Avoid reflections on the chastity of your opponent's female relations or on any physical infirmity from which he may be suffering. Once you have gone so far it is impossible to retrace your steps and resort to minor forms of vituperation. Never shout ... Be calm . . . Begin with a great show of courtesy...
...camp will offer to qualified candidates for its staff, a summer with free board at Menton, a small resort town 12 miles cast of Nice, and the chance to bring some happiness...
While the editorial paces of the CRIMSON should be--and are--far more than the last resort of a desperate undergraduate, I am turning to you in a troubled state of mind...
Activities planned for this term include breakfast flights to Northhampton and other neighboring college towns, participation in air meets sponsored by the Association of New England Flying Clubs, and a jaunt by the whole group to an aviators' resort...