Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STUDENTS The U.S. Air Force Academy honor code, to which every cadet must subscribe, says that "We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does." Two years ago, the Academy - and the nation - was shocked when word broke out that 109 cadets had resigned after they had been accused of cheating. Last week scandal again struck Colorado Springs: The Academy superintendent, Lieut. General Thomas S. Moorman, announced that 33 more cadets had resigned for cheating-and a full investigation of possible other code violations was under...
...Named for the 19th century French Positivist philosopher who added the word "sociology" to the language. * Playboy has itself practiced entrapment at times by hiring private investigators who pretend to be eager Johns and ask club bunnies for a date. If the bunnies are dumb enough to accept, they may get fired...
...Today, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, Ray Bradbury and Ken Purdy regularly provide respectable material. This upgrading of fiction is largely due to Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine. "Spec" has done that and more. Last summer he hired as fiction editor Robie Macauley, who had been running the distinguished Kenyon Review. "I was familiar with Playboy," says Macauley. "The students at Kenyon read it?so did the clergy. Besides, a magazine like this matures...
...plaintiffs, four British sherry producers, are demanding that they not be enjoined from using the word "sherry" on their labels The defendants, Pedro Domecq, Gonzalez Byass (Tio Pepe) and two other Spanish sherrymakers, argue that true sherry comes only from the vineyards around the Spanish town of Jerez. Since "sherry" is merely a corruption of "Jerez," they say, it ought to be reserved for the Jerez product, just as British courts have reserved the name "champagne" for France's Champagne district...
...British army term for paperwork. Powell's people move through "the backwoods of this bureaucratic jungle," and it is a novelistic miracle that he keeps their old characters vivid and alive while they are being bored to death. If not bored, embarrassed. "Embarrassed" rather than "afraid" is the word one character finds for his feeling when his bathroom is bombed...