Word: verb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F., making good Churchill's promise to make "rostockize" a more sinister verb than "coventrize,"* revisited ruined Rostock, then flew eight miles farther north to Warnemünde, aircraft-manufacturing center and U-boat training base. As the night flyers came in through fog, intense artillery fire greeted them-but no searchlights...
...When you are asked to answer a series of questions, always put down some answer, for you will probably be given no credit for nothing, but at least partial credit for anything at all," they continued. "When writing your answers, use an interesting style, not just subject, verb, object over and over again...
...odds the most intense concern of plain folk is food: "The verb 'to eat' is conjugated in every possible way whenever two people meet." By 3 on the afternoon of the day Antwerp fell, huge trucks were hauling the city's two-to-four-year stores back to Germany...
...Cantinflas, advised Cardenas to put a stop to his joshing. Said he: "You ought to stop this. It was by permitting such ridicule of the Spanish Republican Government that we lost public confidence resulting in our downfall." Ignored was Prieto's advice. Cantinflas is now popularizing a new verb in the Mexican language. The verb is "cantinflear," which means to talk much, say little, indulge in wild non sequiturs. Cantinflas constantly rebuffs German propagandists eager to use the popular theatre in Mexico to get the Führer's message across...
...people are a one-language people. Unlike Europeans, many of whom are bilingual by second nature, most good Americans speak nothing but bad English. In school, they study foreign languages for "mental discipline," usually finish their course better able to decline a French verb than to use it. But lately many signs have appeared that World War II may modify U. S. language habits...