Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this goes on in China. That fact doesn't seem very significant because Brecht seems to write with a dark Germanic humor and the English version which the Harvard Dramatic Club chose is by Eric Bentley, who never uses a foreign word when an American one will do. The colloquiality (?) of the piece is one of its charms...
...quote from Emerson's essay Compensation seems fitting: "The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side...
Rounding out two days of testimony, Chairman McClellan zeroed in on a reported plan by Teamster Shafer to jump a Southwestern driver, etch the word rat in acid on his forehead. Scowled angry John McClellan: "Don't you agree with me that anyone who would give such orders as that is a rat himself?" Slick-looking Teamster Shafer blushed, swallowed, declined to answer on ground that the answer might incriminate...
...Professor Skinner says, "Even a poor student is likely to do this correctly because he has just composed or completed the word five times, he made two important root-responses, and has learned that two letters occur in word twice. He has probably learned to spell the word without mistakes...
This process accomplishes a gradual and comprehensive replacement of the indistinct general terms by the technical ones. "Filament" replaces "fine wire"; "emit" takes the place of "glow" and "give off light", and then the word "emit" is inflected in different ways for greater familiarity with terms...