Word: thai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army taught thousands of G.I.s-to speak foreign languages-even "unspeakable" ones like Thai. Its secret weapon was a phonograph with made-to-order records. Old-style language teachers scoffed at the Army method, even after the Army method worked. It wasn't the records that brought results; they claimed; it was the intensive, purposeful way the G.I.s studied, and the small-size classes they studied in. But when the Army released the records for civilian use, educators were among those who scrambled to buy them...
...Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Malay, Korean, Thai, Turkish, Hindustani, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian...
...East Orange, N.J., Dr. Myerson's soothing drug treatment got partial support last week. An amnesia victim, a wandering farm hand who had been taken to a hospital, was treated with a dose of sodium pen to thai (a barbiturate similar to sodium amytal) and promptly recovered his memory...
...London Daily Herald, Labor's champion, found an excuse for its behavior: "Any Government which regards Parliament as a working machine and not as a mere talking shop must clearly insure . . . thai, the necessary business must go through. Otherwise it would be possible for any disgruntled minority in Parliament to obstruct indefinitely the will of the majority. And that would be the negation of democratic government." Perhaps the Daily Herald had forgotten that Labor's parliamentary majority was elected by less than 50% of Britain's voters...
...Jeritza hit the Metropolitan Opera like a tidal wave. She sang the Vissi d'arte aria from Tosca lying flat on her face, the Seguidilla from Carmen flat on her back. In The Girl of the Golden West she rode a bronco on stage, and as Thai's she once celebrated her conversion to Christianity with a record high-jump that landed her in the hospital. All this musical whoopla endeared Jeritza to her public, if not to her fellow artists. Snorted Soprano Lilli Lehmann: "If you're a real artist you don't have...