Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago last week, the word sped swiftly through Shanghai: "Palu tao-le [The Communists have come] " Along the narrow streets, through the scrupulously landscaped European concessions, onto the wide Bund fronting the busy Whangpoo River, swarmed the small neat soldiers in mustard-colored uniforms. The uneasy Red conquerors turned a startled gaze on the Western-style skyscrapers, the banks and private clubs and cabarets of the greatest city on the Asian mainland (pop. 5,000,000), which had just fallen to them without a fight...
...questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through and through, every word...
There the play-1,000 lines without punctuation or word spacing-was painstakingly translated into French by Classicist Victor Martin of Geneva University. Menander emerged (circa 342-291 B.C.) during the decline of Athens, an era dominated by the Macedonian occupation. His audiences were no longer intellectually vibrant Greeks; they had an appetite for pulp stories that might have made them content watching a TV western. "Stay at home." one of his characters says. "A man is free nowhere else." Menander gave the Greeks sharply etched, lifelike stories, tenderly observed and hilariously written...
...disk jockeys' convention was not all payola. The sponsoring (Omaha-based ) Storz radio chain had, after all, slipped the word "seminar" into the official title. The jocks heard lectures on such subjects as "News Should Be New," "Do We Live and Die By Ratings?" (answer: yes), "Are Live Radio Commercials Dead?" (no, they just sound that...
...until the roundup began. But United Press International, which did not staff Silver's briefing, was told about the raid by a "responsible police official." who set the release date at 10 p.m. Out on the U.P.I, wire in time for 10 o'clock radio newscasts clacked word of Silver's sortie, a full two hours before the cops were due to swoop...