Word: wo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirit of the dead," walks about moaning "Meh, meh, meh," and will "eat your soul" unless you hum back at him in a gentle singsong. Tall Timakanā, "the leg-bone ghost," has big, swollen knees that beat together when he walks and make a noise like "ti-ye-wo, ti-ye-wo." The aé lives in the trees "like a very large spider monkey" and has "red hair, red eyes, a blue penis, and blue bones." Of course all this crew is active only at night, when the stars-"which are attached to the sky by a little...
...Civil War-Stonewall Jackson, vibrant and vital, writing his wife about his glory at First Bull Run: "God made my brigade more instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General Lee to the rear"; Phil Sheridan, little...
...follow certain rules of grammar much like those of Greek. Finally, he began coupling various Greek syllable sounds with likely signs on the tablets. To one word, for instance, he assigned the Greek sounds KO-NO-SO (Knossos), and to another word with the same beginning, he assigned KO-WO, or kor-wos, classical Greek for boy. Taking his cue from the tablets' pictures, Ventris tried other combinations. To his delight, the tablets at last began to make sense...
...evidence poured in. Newsman Kilpatrick peppered Virginia's Governor John S. Battle with some 50 letters - so many that, when he had occasion to write the governor on other matters, he wo'tild preface his letters with the phrase, "Not about Silas Rogers." Kilpatrick wrote a series of cold, factual editorials on the case, deliberately avoided sensationalism for fear that Red-front groups would leap into the fray for propaganda purposes...
Meeting in Berlin. Walking along East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, looking for an American or a British flag, Mieczyslaw was stopped by a jack-booted young Volkspolizist: "Wo gehst du hin?" Mieczyslaw did not understand the words, but he understood the tone. He planted his sneaker-clad feet wide apart and looked coldly into the officer's eyes. "I am the son of a Russian officer," he said in Polish. "Do not stop me. You cannot stop me." The Volkspolizist stepped back. Mieczyslaw strode on, into West Berlin...