Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped by adhesive discs. Banjo-eyed is no word for a tarsier; its brown orbs suggest bass drums, at least...
From Louisville came word of another raffle. There a white man won an automobile in a drawing sponsored by a Negro sorority. The Negro committee didn't even think of taking it away from...
...first time in history," the announcer intones, "a dog appears as the star of a national radio program. But . . . a word from our star, Lassie. All your fans have asked what your favorite color is. Is it blue? [Pause] Pink? [Pause] Now don't tell me it's Red Heart...
...Cambridge Street. The throwing arm didn't feel so good. As Vag strolled down through the Yard, now almost completely shaded by the trees, he decided that he had still been right in coming during the hot months. But the Yard was almost deserted; there was only one word for it: he was lonely. Vag suddenly realized that he felt in many ways the same as he had when he first came as a Freshman. There were no friends around; he only knew five or six people to talk...
Once at an investigation of Aubrey Williams' loyalties, Senator MacKellar stumbled over the word "symphony" and when it was explained to him, mumbled that he couldn't be responsible for knowing all this Communist terminology. The future of Harvard graduates in government jobs when such hatchet men get going, is a prospect interesting to contemplate...