Word: ters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUPLE. Art Carney and Wal ter Matthau are roommates in Neil Si mons hilarious study of two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives- until the tried living with each other...
...mysterious influence, make their hosts support them in idle luxury. Usually, a few of the parasites cling to the fire ant queen by means of specially adapted mandibles that fit around her neck without hurting her. When a worker comes to feed her with regurgitated food, the parasites flut ter their antennae, apparently convey ing a compelling message that makes the worker feed the parasites instead of the queen...
...COUPLE. Art Carney and Wal ter Matthau are riotous roommates in Neil Simon's hilarious study of two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives-until they tried living with each other...
...background music was perfect: outside the Central Maine Youth Cen ter teen-age carolers chanted The Mickey Mouse March. So was the lighting: to ensure a "perfect" picture for the closed-circuit telecast that carried the action to 257 theaters across the U.S., technicians installed huge klieg lights that sent the temperature at ringside to 100°. Then there was the supporting cast. Spooked by reports that followers of the late Malcolm X planned to avenge their leader's death by assassinating Black Muslim Clay, some 300 Lewiston police, county sheriffs, state troopers, firemen and civil defense workers milled...
...blimey, why carn't you Americans use English proper when yer wants ter be colloquial? Yer don't half muck us up. It took me rahnd abaht five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York...