Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caught up with the official welcome from an incongruous dance band (hired by the sea-captain husband of the movies' retired Marion Davies), from a corporal's guard of Cal-Rock boosters, and from National Committeeman Edward Shattuck, who wore a silver and blue pin with the word "Nixon" etched...
...Washington the word seeped out that Speaker Sam Rayburn, permanent chairman of the last three Democratic National Conventions, will not accept that honorific spot again at next July's convention in Los Angeles. The chairman, Mister Sam feels, should be conspicuously neutral, and Rayburn's own all-out support of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's presidential ambitions rules...
...wear ties during meals, a measure equivalent to giving waist coats to Hottentots. Then last year the students were put on probation after a bit of restlessness in the streets. Just two weeks ago, President A. Whitney Griswold returned to the classroom to teach a class and muffed the word "epistemology" (misdefined it, not misspelled it). Yale's friends all over cannot but ask themselves, "Is the old school slipping...
...question of dropping the word "daily" from the News' masthead continues to divide the editors, many of whom assert that it is "dishonest" and "hardly Yale" to claim an undeserved title. Others, however, insist that "It looks good on the page--and it never matters what we say, anyway...
...pointed out that "until now, no one since Shakespeare has found a sufficient answer to the problems that arise from the combination of poetry and the stage ... Only MacLeish has found the line that teaches the American language how to go greatly on the stage." "Great" was a word Mr. Ciardi felt he couldn't escape that day. "J.B. is a great dramatization of the human position," he wrote; "great themes can be truly engaged only by great art. MacLeish's triumph is that he has been equal to his great theme...