Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word Wanted...
...country who favors Russia and its ideology must be either a knave or a fool, and the Communists themselves must have their dupes and stooges as well as their helpless victims. Let's aid the cause of democracy in the U.S. and abroad by developing an authentic, descriptive word...
...landed. But even Poland's ports are not entirely her own. The former German Swinemunde, now Swinoujscie, has thousands of Red fleet sailors. One of the few Polish sailors I saw there said sourly: "This is a Soviet base." Swinoujscie's ice-cream shop had the Russian word for "ice cream," morozhenoye, before the Polish word, lody...
...easygoing pidgin, one word does the work of 20, a shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...
...pinched London dailies gave their all (four to eight pages) to the story. The U.S. press gave more space (having more to give) but less than its all. The New York Times ran the story for 23 columns. The Moscow press, of course, printed not a word. London's Daily Worker gave the story a scant twelve lines on Page One; its New York cousin sneered in big black type: 18 COUPLES WED-QUIETLY AT CITY HALL...