Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With plenty of good English words for confusion and destruction, why contribute to the impoverishment of the mother tongue by ignorantly or carelessly misusing a word that has a precise meaning...
...Mencken, American Language, Supplement I: "Shambles is a very old word in English. ... In American usage it has now come to signify any sort of 'very great, perhaps complete disorder, confusion or destruction...
...word could describe India, it would be poverty. The ignorance of the farmer, the infant mortality rate, the cholera epidemics, the biannual famine, are all results of the unhappy fact that there isn't enough to eat. India, whose population totals almost 400 million, and whose land area is actually a subcontinent, must import rice from Burma and Thailand. Her own production, per acre, is only one-third that of Japan. The average farmer earns about twenty dollars a year, when his land yields anything. When it fails, as it does so often, he gets into the statistics...
...must work together from the ground to achieve some social foundation on which to build a union of the Indian peoples. Education, agricultural reform, social security, and systems of public health must be strengthened beyond their present token status as newsreel scenes of British paternalism. Freedom, more than a word, is more than a constitution and a congress...
...officials swing back into action, preparing revised price lists, merchants in the Square hold tight on their bulging price lines, waiting to see what the word will be. For the first time since the CRIMSON opened its campaign, no complaints have been registered...