Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, Nov. 17: "In Eastern Europe the umbrella took the form of a program to liquidate non-Communist leaders in satellite states." You mean "murder"? Then why the soft word, the wiggle word, the euphemism? "Murder" is clear in meaning, one syllable and three letters more concise than this clumsy circumlocution which with ... a score or more of other obscure terms have oozed up from the quagmires of European political intrigue and diplomatic doubletalk...
...backed out of the Marshall plan when Russia sent over word that she didn't like the idea. What Benes said was that the Czechs are not between Russia and America, but between Russia and Germany, and Germany and America begin to mean the same thing when the US starts planning to reindustrialize the Western Zones. The French feel the same way. At the bottom of it, you've got to realize that Germans were here for six years, that people in the street, the guy who runs the hotdog stand on the corner and all of Norman Corwin...
...Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed that one of the Harkness millions had been offered Harvard for the construction of decent theatrical facilities for Baker, and was turned down, later to be accepted by Yale. In the meantime, President Lowell (of Harvard) had explained. "A theatre and a permanent school for playwrights would...
...another word, old man," I murmured tenderly, soothing his damp forehead with a piece of tingel...
Attack was the word all evening, Jack Lavelle making 28 saves in all and Revins 24. Play frequently went for minutes at a time without a whistle to keep up the fast pace. Only six penalties were doled out although the action was rough on both sides