Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weasel words had burrowed into the syntax of this passage, but the implication was clear. A further statement from the Central Committee made it clearer: "The people of France place themselves resolutely, and in all circumstances, in the camp of the Soviet Union and her heroic army...
...even the most hard-bitten English A instructors shriek with shame. The time pressure inherent in the examination system causes a good bit of the poor writing, but at least some of it is due to carelessness. Authors of flagrant examples of careless writing--grotesque grammar, bizarre vocabulary, murky syntax-- should be reported without compunction to the Faculty Committee on the Use of English by Students. The Committee exists in order to take care of just such people. In the past it has received so little business that you would think all Harvard examinations were written by Addison and Steele...
...through the Illinois political machine. Making his first bid for the Senate in 1938, he had to buck Chicago's high-riding Kelly-Nash machine to win the nomination. When he came up for re-elec tion in 1944 he had so won over the old Boss that syntax-wrecking Ed Kelly nominated him for the vice-presidency...
Last week, in a book-littered room on the University of Chicago campus, Miss Geweke was buried in vocabulary and syntax. She had three scholars working with her; volunteers in schools and colleges all over the U.S. had answered her discreet little notes asking for help, placed in classical journals. A professor at Tulane University had made her a list of 8,000 Latin words which closely resemble the English. A teacher at Pennsylvania's Ursinus College had made a frequency count of Vergil's vocabulary. The chairman of the State University of Iowa's classics department...
...hero of this novel is like the title, a trifle bewildered about English syntax but eloquent just the same. He is an old black man in an old black suit, pastor of a poor country church in Natal, and South Africa is seen through his hurt and innocent eyes. Father Stephen Kumalo is a Zulu whom white missionaries redeemed from darkness. But neither he nor his tribe have found peace on earth since the tribal society was destroyed...