Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because of "unpleasant connotations" acquired by the term during payola investigations, "disk jockey" was banned from the air by Poughkeepsie, N.Y.'s station WEOK. WEOK's deejays are now to be known as "musicasters." ¶ Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would henceforth spell "Communism" with a "K," just like the Russians. Why? Explained the admiral: Khrushchev in the Kremlin bosses Kommunists everywhere, and his spelling would identify "Kommu-nism for what it is-a foreignism that will never be accepted voluntarily by free people." Prescribed for Admiral Burke by New York...
After a three-year spell of comparative quiescence, Nasser plainly wanted to follow an aggressively Arab-nationalist line in the Middle East. To do this, he was quite prepared to hot things up against Jordan and to make life miserable for Jordan's Premier Hazza Majali, 40, a sophisticated moderate who, before taking the premiership last spring, privately approached Nasser to assure himself of Cairo's benevolence. Now Majali found himself thunderously denounced by "Voice of the Arabs" as "a notorious old imperialist stooge." Not yet attacking King Hussein by name, Nasser himself charged last week...
...Democrats or both-is inevitable in this session, and the Southerners, from Georgia's fiercely eloquent Richard Russell on down, know it. Even so, Dick Russell, as general of the delaying forces, set up his well-organized willful minority, selecting three teams of six men each who could spell each other in relays of pairs, with each pair holding the floor for four hours at a time...
...notice that there was a slight error, which I do not think you will mind my calling attention to. It concerns my African name, and if I may, I would like to spell it correctly...
...economic issue by far is the high cost of living. Paradoxically, the public feels, by a margin of 8 to 5 in a Gallup poll, that the Democratic Party, rather than the Republican, is more interested in trying to hold down prices. In public opinion, apparently, the long spell of price upcreep beginning in 1956 cancels out the Administration's stress on the goal of sound money...