Word: words
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday, it was clear exactly what the University was going to do--in the time-honored-tradition of the bureaucracy, ambiguity became the word of the week...
...Herd is the word," chanted the Harvard Harriers as they clinched the men's Greater Boston Championship for the first time since 1973, beating out archrival Northeastern for the title at Franklin Park yesterday afternoon...
...word is a colloquial, shortened form of Mexicano. It became fashionable among younger Mexican Americans during the '60s; some members of the older generation prefer...
...then went out of print. A few pieces survived the drift toward transiency to which most stories are prone: The Enormous Radio became a standard inclusion in fiction anthologies; The Swimmer inspired an inadequate Hollywood film. The continued existence of other tales, though, came to depend chiefly on word of mouth or hearsay. Cheever's reputation as a master American storyteller seemed rooted in the memory of admirers...
...with no pretensions whatever. The lively old figure, with eyes the color of the Israeli flag, dressed as for a formal walk on Warsaw's main street in 1928, has become a familiar one to shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West Side. The author's first words, when informed of the Nobel Prize, were typically effacing: "Are you sure?" Singer has no plans to change either his life-style or prose style: "Everything will remain the same -same typewriter, same wife, same apartment, same telephone number, same language. I am thankful, of course, for the prize...