Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using three words where one would do, once referred to bananas as "elongated yellow fruit." This periphrasis so fascinated Charles W. Morton, now the associate editor of the Atlantic, that he began collecting examples of "Elongated Yellow Fruit" writing. Friends on newspapers and magazines have joined in the game, send him the worst examples they can find for the Atlantic Bulletin, a chatty monthly promotion letter (circ. 5,000). Samples...
Ever since the first truce meeting two years ago, there have been repeated "peace scares"-loose talk based on the uninformed belief that the war's end would send the economy into a tailspin. But businessmen were singularly unruffled when peace came. Around the country, they saw little change in the economic outlook. In Seattle, where the Boeing Airplane Co. payroll affects one person in six, Boeing President William Allen said the company's employment there would remain at 30,000. In Dallas, Economist Fred Carlson of Dresser Industries predicted: "Whatever reduction there may be in defense expenditures...
...Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (India, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia) and guarded by Indian troops only. To placate Syngman Rhee, the Indians will take custody in a part of the buffer zone near Panmunjom-which is outside Rhee's administrative area. For 90 days the Reds may send representatives to persuade the unwilling prisoners to return to their homeland. The number of such "explainers" is limited to seven for each 1,000 prisoners, and the interviews will be monitored by the N.N.R.C. and by a member of the "detaining side" (which means, in effect, that a U.S. or other trusted...
...lying in his hole, all curled up. I guess the round just dropped in on top of him." Afterwards, he and the rest of the squad had to decide what to do with the last letter the man had written before the round dropped in on him. "Send it home." said the chaplain, "his Mom will want to know what he was thinking before he died...
...private who could have abandoned his hole, but stood up throwing back Chinese hand grenades before they exploded-until he misjudged one. And the corporal, with four bullets in his chest, who was told: "Take a stretcher; you'll die if you walk down." "Yeah," he replied, "send four guys back to carry me and they'll all get clobbered. I'll make it." And he did. Those were the cool heroes, sacrificing themselves, not to "halt aggression" or "fight Communism," but out of elemental loyalty to the outfit, and to the other men around them...