Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pronounced herself "delighted" as bulletins flashed from Miami Beach that a Thai girl once nicknamed Pook (Fatty), raven-haired Apasra Hongsakula, 18, had been voted Miss Universe. Queen Sirikit, herself a famous beauty, had fussed with Pook before the contest, marching her up and down the palace halls to watch her posture. When it was all over, Pook (35-22-35) paraded into New York City for a peek at the town and the World's Fair, cooed "I hope my Queen is happy...
...even electronically bugged the official IRS seal in the Chamber of Commerce building, and put behind the plaque a two-way mirror and a camera. In Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Montgomery and Kansas City, IRS conference rooms were equipped with two-way mirrors or hidden microphones so that agents could watch or hear taxpayers and their lawyers while they conversed. In Boston, an IRS agent disguised himself as a Coast Guard petty officer (although it is a federal offense to impersonate a military man) so he could more easily bug an IRS conference room at a Coast Guard base...
...term of indulgent affection applied to white women by Negro men, and sometimes conversely by Negro women to white men, but never adversely by either." Sample line: "Her moments of tender intimacy with a big fine white man, if all were put together, would make a fine Swiss watch...
...place of immaculate order; noisy guests are ordered to leave, and drunks are not allowed in. In Stuttgart's eight-year-old Drei-Farben hostel, business is transacted only from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.-except on Sundays and holidays, when its 71 practitioners knit and watch television...
...knows most of the answers is Ted Bernstein, assistant managing editor of the New York Times and the paper's unofficial grammarian.* His wry bulletins to the staff have disciplined loose Times talk for 14 years. Compiled into two books, Watch Your Language and More Language That Needs Watching, they have sold nearly 100,000 copies and have established Bernstein as a guide whose influence is not confined to journalism. The Careful Writer could be subtitled The Compleat Bernstein...