Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demanded 1) a room, 2) whisky, 3) an explanation from the British embassy's second secretary for not meeting him at the airport. When the secretary explained about curfew, Churchill decided to go higher, hung up with "I'll telephone the ambassador-you're not much use." Hoisting another round, he ran afoul of an aide, who refused to disturb Ambassador George Middleton. Schemes agley, Randolph Churchill ordered a seat on a London-bound plane leaving within the hour, gave his thought for the day to bystanders: "Do you know, tomorrow I'll be back among...
...coming "end of the world": "In this atomic age," said Dr. Francis D. Nichol, editor of the Adventists' Review and Herald, "we hear frightened scientists and many others beginning to use a phrase that formerly appeared to be the monopoly of Adventist preachers...
...remain are largely Melville's, but they rattle unconvincingly in the mouths of hollowed-out characters. Writes the editor: "The sentence structure and punctuation have been simplified. In some instances, for the sake of clarity, rearrangement of the Moby Dick sequence of events was made. Words of infrequent use and unfamiliar terms were screened; questionable words were checked in Thorndike's The Teacher's Word Book of 20,000 Words...
Finally, the Rockefeller panel members urge that the nation make better use of the talents of women, Negroes and the growing proportion of the population arbitrarily considered aged...
...lyrics are from a jukebox hit called Witch Doctor, by Ross (Come on-a My House) Bagdasarian, and in the pop industry, which apes itself with witless intensity, they have contributed to a recent style in novelty numbers: the use of speeded-up or doctored tape to achieve nonsensical vocal effects. The Little Blue Man climbed the charts briefly because it had a whiningly metallic voice whispering "I wuv you" at periodic intervals; a new record called What'd He Say? consists of a series of bewildered questioners trying to ungarble answers that invariably degenerate into taped gobbledygook just...