Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History Goes "Quack, Quack." Through the summer, in bullbat sessions and public meetings at the 21-nation Conference in Paris, Byrnes talked well and vigorously. On one occasion he cried: "I will sit here no more arguing whether the word should be 'and' or 'but' . . . haggling over commas and semicolons. . . ." A New Zealand delegate, W. J. Jordan, was similarly annoyed. He snapped: "I'm sick of listening to 'quack, quack, quack' hour after hour...
...side of having a politician as Secretary of State in a time of crisis was Byrnes's handling of Henry Wallace's stab-in-the-back. One French diplomat who has watched Byrnes for a year made a point: "Never in our hearing did he utter a word of criticism of either his President or of Wallace. That showed me he was a loyal man-but also, which is perhaps better-that he was a damn smart politician. Politician is a word which has got a bad connotation in many parts of the world. But there...
...farmers, study a written syllable and the picture of a familiar object whose name begins with the same syllable (example: "new" and a newspaper). Eventually they get to know the syllable by itself. Says Director Gustavo Vallejo Larrea: "The most thrilling moment is when they read their first word without a picture. They consider it just short of a miracle-sweat, cry and try to kiss the teacher's hand...
...roundup," a quick look at people in scattered places, was invented by newspapers, borrowed with spectacular success by radio. Last week the New York Times used it with good results. To 18 Times correspondents round the world went cabled orders for a 600-word interview with a "common man" in each country...
...This ... is a basic paradox: one moment money is the chief inducement to produce good programs; the next, it is the chief inducement to produce bad ones. In any case, money always has the last word...