Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, only vague hints of progress came through the newly imposed news blackout. Then the Reds broke the spell. Peking radio announced that the allies had submitted a new proposal, but since it was still based on voluntary repatriation, it had been turned down...
Yale men, usually a mild-mannered and conventionally apathetic bunch, have worked themselves into a good-sized spell of intellectual activity over a new College ruling requiring them to wear coats and ties at evening meals. In fact, from the amount of serious bitching the Yalies have done over a seemingly trivial issue, something more serious must be lurking beneath the surface of their discontent...
...early Kandinskys, such as Light Form, were fresh and fructifying as spring thundershowers. Scores of lesser abstractionists sprouted under their spell. Kandinsky called his first, free-wheeling abstractions "improvisations." Subsequent, elaborately thought-out paintings such as Le Bon Contact and One Center he called "compositions...
...Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words by 1952's fall. Until then, risking confusion, the American pilots can spell out messages by using either varia tion - viz., Jig or Juliett...
...said long-suffering Umberto Calosso with a cheerful smile, "that these boys and girls should have come under the evil spell of Fascism, but I have my duty. If they tear down the place, I shall keep right on with my lectures." Now protected by a green-coated cop at the door, and anti-Fascist students who check off everyone who enters, Calosso has another 15 lectures...