Word: words
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depend on what the NTSB's crash detectives eventually find to be the "probable cause" of Flight 191's crash. The accident left no survivors to interview, and the cockpit voice recorder disclosed only two sounds after the routine checklist readings: an unexplained thud and the single word "Damn!" shouted by the pilot or copilot, apparently just as the engine tore away from the wing...
...made an early visit to the Vatican after John Paul was elected to size up the new Polish Pope. John Paul may prove a hard bargainer, much more likely than Paul VI to demand quid pro quo for Vatican good will and to hold the Communist world to its word thereafter. Gromyko was recently quoted in the Italian press as fearing that the Pope's visit would have "the same effect on the masses as the Ayatullah Khomeini had in Iran...
...English professor (he feared he would become "a bloody bore") to devote himself to publishing and writing. Though he once turned out a novel in a month for his Scholartis Press in London, he gave up fiction to make a profession of his passion: the study of words. Over five decades, he compiled 16 erudite lexicons devoted to slang, cliches and other aspects of the language; his last effort, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases (1977), contained 3,000 entries. "The Word King," as Critic Edmund Wilson dubbed him, savaged linguistic abuses (he found American sociopsychological jargon especially "pitiable") and saluted...
...always place our students. If we target at one PhD, I think we can place that one scholar," he says. Simon, like Rosovsky, is not very disturbed by the shrinking GSAS and thinks any resulting problems have solutions, found easily with a little analysis, this year's by-word at GSAS...
...that the National Education Association--the bill's hardest pushing and most important lobby--never endorsed a presidential candidate until Carter promised he would create a Department of Education. Rep. John N. Erlenborn (R-Ill.) is less kind. "H.R. 13778 is a political payoff in every sense of the word," he told his colleagues, adding, "it is the cargo preference legislation of the education community." One longtime Capitol Hill observer is almost incredulous. "When you want to satisfy an interest group," she explains, "you give them a dinner--not a department." Many Washington analysts simply point to Carter's political...