Word: worded
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Sophomore forward Ted Donato was the man whose name appeared on the ballots more than any other. In a tourney that showcased six Hobey Baker finalists, Donato's two-game, five-point performance had made his name a household word and earned him MVP honors...
...other hand, every new term, however inelegant, is given the treatment that long ago distinguished the OED from all competitors. This dictionary does not merely give etymologies, pronunciations and definitions; it also provides a word's earliest known appearance in print and uses quotations to illustrate the context in which the word has been used and all shifts of meaning to which it has been subjected. Hence AIDS (another lamentable addition to the lexicon) is defined and then traced back to its presumptive print debut, in the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report of Sept...
...every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed to the efficient cooperation among firms in Britain, Canada and the U.S., all of whom contributed essential parts to the larger whole. But the principal reason why this edition was prepared so rapidly can be cited in a word that did not appear in the first OED: computerization...
They devised programs that can search through the OED2 and come up with information that would have taken weeks, years or lifetimes to assemble before. Word of this advance in data retrieval has been spreading among computer and dictionary buffs for months. Tompa has letters on his desk asking how many words entered English directly from German and how many references to the Malay language appear in the dictionary. Child's play, apparently. He is more interested in the broader possibilities. "It would be relatively straightforward," he says, "to compile dictionaries for distinct historical periods, to produce something, say, that...
...Tuesday, one day after he was sworn in as "drug czar," Bennett talked * the import ban over with Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, whose department oversees the BATF. Bennett got word to White House chief of staff John Sununu about the plan. When the White House did not object, Bennett and Higgins went ahead and announced the import ban last Tuesday...