Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike Dominican Dictator Trujillo, Tacho kills a man only as a last resort. A spell in jail usually brings an enemy around. If jail fails, the Guardia has a little electric device known as la maquinita. A wire is wrapped around the prisoner's scrotum, and if he is stubborn, the current is turned on. There are Nicaraguan exiles in Guatemala who cry in their sleep about the Little Machine. "Oh, hell," snorts Tacho, "that damned thing isn't so bad. I've tried it myself-on my hand...
Sherwood says that Hopkins, Wallace and many another New Dealer were slow in understanding the threat to the U.S. in Axis aggression. But F.D.R. valued Hopkins enough to spell out patiently the facts of international life for him, and Harry learned so fast that by March 5, 1941, Secretary Stimson wrote in his diary: "The more I think of it, the more I think it is a Godsend that [Hopkins] should be at the White House...
...problem of buying for all ages is simplified by the Toy Guidance Council Inc., financed by 175 manufacturers and retailers. This year it is distributing 1,500,000 Toy Yearbooks describing 200 toys which help children to learn to count and spell. Examples: Play and Count book (price: $1.25), magnetized "Pick-up-Stix" (69?), the "Playskool Counting House" scale, which balances only when weighted numbers on both sides add up to the same figure...
Caesar's Fault. Shaw seems just to be getting up full steam on Darwinism when he jumps the track and chugs off on a discussion of the English language. "An intelligent child who is bidden to spell debt, and very properly spells it det, is caned for not spelling it with a b because Julius Caesar spelt the Latin word for it with...
...reform of the language and the creation of a new alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...