Word: strunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tommy Strunk, a 28-year-old Kentucky railroad worker, was slowly dying of a kidney disease. According to doctors, the only therapy that could save him was a kidney transplant, and the best donor would be Tommy's brother Jerry, 27. But Jerry, though he idolizes Tommy, is confined to a state mental hospital. Even if he had fully understood the crisis, Jerry was mentally incompetent to authorize surgery on himself...
Warning from Treasury. Economist Norman Strunk, executive vice president of the United States Savings and Loan League, faulted the big banks for expanding their lending during May at an annual rate of 17%. "No wonder they ran out of money and had to raise their rate," he said. "While bank presidents have been publicly wringing their hands," added Strunk, "lending officers have been pouring gas on the inflation bonfire...
...many books on proper English usage already exist-Strunk, Fowler, Jespersen, Evans, Mencken-that the appearance of yet another is a case of meeting an unfelt need. One dependable authority in this field, like one telephone company, should be enough, and the English-speaking world has had one since British Lexicographer Henry...
Although = Though. A persuasive case could probably be argued against the need for any guidebooks to good usage, but an airtight case could surely be marshaled against windy ones. William Strunk Jr.'s succinct Elements of Style (71 pages; TIME, July 13, 1959) does not waste time, for example, on the nonexistent difference between although and though; Modern American Usage squanders 750 words on the subject, concludes: "There is not much to be lost by treating the two words as interchangeable and not much to be gained by attempts to differentiate them...
...been forced to slash their mortgage lending, causing builders and lenders alike to forecast a severe slump within a few months in the already limping housing industry. "Not only are lenders refusing to talk to home builders about plans for this summer and fall," says Executive Vice President Norman Strunk of the U.S. Savings and Loan League, "but they are even cutting back drastically on loans to finance the purchase of existing homes...