Word: serbo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doorway to the small balcony. There every day in years past a plumed crier appeared daily to tell the world the news. Now, gnarled in body and knotty of mind, he emerges once yearly, on New Year's morn, to gurgle weird incantations about the coming twelve-month in Serbo-Croation. Below are his predictions, translated from the original...
...severe disadvantage. Perhaps he is doing independent work, connected with or unrelated to his field, that not even his tutor knows about. Perhaps his tutor doesn't know him, as is usually the case with mathematicians. On the other hand perhaps he studies nothing but Serbo-Croatian, his major, all day and all night...
Between eating and rubbernecking, Tito squeezed in 2½ hours of talks with Kennedy, speaking in Serbo-Croatian but following Kennedy's remarks without the help of a translator. High among the topics discussed was last year's cancellation by Congress of Yugoslavia's most-favored-nation status in trade with the U.S. Kennedy promised to see what he could do to restore it, but his chances of persuading Congress...
...border, one for passport inspection, one for customs; and the customs official, a ruddy man with an immense fur overcoat and Russian style hat, is even more humorless than his American counterpart. This particular one showed no response whatsoever to one tourist's pathetic attempts to cope with a Serbo-Croatian customs form, though his stoniness did finally soften when another tourist requested extra stamps for her passport. For a moment, he relaxed his suspicious glare, smiled, and stamped her passport three more times...