Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn's early light, the chant echoed through the streets of Enugu, the capital of Eastern Nigeria. Because Nigeria has been a troubled land of late, the word of its demise was not a total surprise-although perhaps premature. But who were the Biafrans...
...only did she perk up Daddy-Newport Socialite Howard G. Gushing-she very much cheered Writer-Photographer Peter Hill Beard, Yaleman ('61), great-grandson of Railroad Baron James J. Hill, wildlife conservationist and author (The End of the Game), The stalking went well, and last week word came that the lissome, darkly beautiful "Minnie," 24, and Beard, 29, will be married in August at The Ledges, the Newport cottage built by her great-grandfather...
...Mayor Raymond Tucker, now professor of urban affairs at Washington University, "and some swear by the Post-Dispatch." And some swear at them. "Unfair, reactionary, hip-shooting" are epithets commonly hurled at the Globe. "Sluggish, effete, unpatriotic" are some of the names the Post-Dispatch is called. "The kindest word our critics use is liberal," says P-D Architectural Writer George McCue...
...Word has it that the Teaching Fellows Federation, last week denied significant salary increases, is planning at present to take their case to the American Association of University Professors, a powerful organization that has improved in every way the working conditions of college and university professors on campuses across the country...
...room walls are fitted with a traveling ladder. He writes in a studio, lying on a bed, composing his lines on a small pad. "It's such a miracle if you get lines that are halfway right," he once explained. "You think three times before you put a word down, and ten times about taking it out." When he has finished his rough draft, he begins fashioning rhymes. Later comes the "real work," which is "to make it something much better than the original...