Word: speeder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian? It must decide, for example, whether to include peculiarly Italian uses of English words. Sexy is in conversational use in Italy but implies heights of nubility far beyond the English meaning. A box is a garage for such fast sports cars as spyders, which is a corruption of speeder. A pullman is a long-distance bus; water is short for water closet. Some phrases have been adopted intact, such as strip tease, baby doll, Latin lover and jet set. Topless, fortunately, brings the same vision to Italian men as to Americans...
Massachusetts Attorney General Edward J. McCormack also blames the voter. In a short discussion after the WHRB Radio Forum yesterday, McCormack emphasized that when the moral standards of the community are low, the political standards will approximate them. The speeder who hands the arresting officer a $5 bill folded in his license is the same man who protests at corruption in government, McCormack said. Where Richardson places primary blame on the Massachusetts political structure, McCormack is more realistic...