Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massive Resistance. In Virginia's constitutional referendum on Jan. 9, 1956, the amendment carried, 304,154 to 146,164, and the Gray Plan had outlived its usefulness. Poor Governor Stanley, who never quite seemed to get the word, hailed the vote as a "mandate" for the Gray Plan. But Harry Byrd interpreted it as a mandate for something much tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd...
...offshore islands was out of sight of the beaches and almost out of the news. More than 200 miles from Quemoy, Rear Admiral Ralph S perry Clarke's Task Force 77 surged along at better than 25 knots, its awesome power untapped but tautly alert if word should come to unleash it. From Clarke's flagship, TIME Correspondent James Bell cabled...
...warn the network that when it does get around to promoting new ideas, they had better be good. "I'll be on every Wednesday night, except when we're pre-empted by a spectacular," he quipped. "You know what a spectacular is. That's a word invented by a network vice president meaning 'Let's make the show longer and more expensive, and maybe they won't notice how lousy it is.' " To judge from last week's preview, NBC's new season will not be a spectacular...
...officially prudish Soviet Union, where every word destined for print is eyed beadily for salaciousness as well as political error, these winy words had as much chance of escaping notice as a nudist at a fashion show. Worse yet, they appeared in T.S. 41, From an Intelligence Agent's Notebook, a shoot-'em-up spy story in the Schoolchild's Library series published by the staid D.O.S.A.A.F. (Volunteer Society for Aiding the Army, Air Force and Navy). "Check your children's library," thundered the Literary Gazette, official organ of the Soviet Writers' Union...
...floating funds and no reserve for emergencies. Thus, the directors refuse to join any speculative venture, even despite the lure of potential high profits and maximum employment. Some sort of fund to provide security would make many more largescale projects possible for student businessmen. Caution is the key-word of all current HSA projects...