Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They also inveighed against nicenellyisms. For example, the Medill stylists urged: "Do not use the words 'criminal assault' as a euphemism for the word 'rape.' " But most newsmen may find it hard to drop this traditional euphemism or its twin "statutory offense." Once the Houston Post tried to. The copy went to the composing room, with a sentence that told how a woman ran down the street screaming "He's trying to rape me! Help!" The Post's prim proofreaders, to whom a rule was a rule, split an infinitive as the lesser...
...female mosquito attracts a male by humming that, to him, sounds very sexy. For years, mean-minded scientists have hoped to duplicate this mating call and use it for the disease-bearing mosquitoes' destruction...
...discharge opening can be varied in size to get the best division of exhaust energy between supercharging and jet thrust. The result is an engine with 4,000 (instead of 3,500) h.p., without proportionate increase in weight. The Air Force intends to use the hybrid in its newest heavy bomber...
...live on the earth. But we slap the insect down-put DDT on him. The average man thinks of insects as a pest, that we'd be better off without them. We wouldn't; we'd be extinct. When people say to me, 'What use is an insect?' I answer, 'What use...
Even the two architects who had designed Moscow's Red Army Theater, in the patriotic shape of a five-pointed star, came in for trouble. The star-shaped theater had proved "both expensive in construction and seriously inconvenient in use...