Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel, which he had just read while visiting the author in Cuba. To back up his claims for the book, Hayward sent a spare copy of the manuscript to LIFE'S editors. Result: this week LIFE (circ. 5,339,565) is publishing a special 20-page insert of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the first time in the memory of publishers that a U.S. magazine has ever printed a novel complete in one issue before its appearance in book form. In two weeks Scribner's will bring out the 140-page, $3 book...
Modernizer Coghill was too much of a poet to follow the patchwork method, i.e., simply to insert modern words where the old ones are unintelligible. He kept Chaucer's rhyme schemes, except where they no longer rang true to the modern ear. And he concentrated particularly on reproducing the lively "tone of voice" of the 14th-century original-by the seemingly paradoxical method of making the verses sound as much like 20th-century conversation as possible...
...Buildup. Even the most competent newspaper editor, says Davis, is often so convinced of the need to be objective that when he spots a "downright misstatment of facts" in a speech, he never follows it with a bracketed insert to the effect that "This simply is not so." If the Honorable John P. Hoozis is an important person, "you [may still] see him quoted at length in newspapers on almost any subject, with no indication that he knew nothing at all about it ... To do that would be editorializing, interpreting the news, failing in objectivity...
...quick recovery and fine throw by first baseman Russ Johnson out down another run at the plate, but then Wahlers--a more J.V. at the start of the year--touched Crimson reliever Bob ward for a line double to knock in the insurance tally. Coach Stuffy Melanins had in insert his fourth pit other of the day--pat Groper--before the inning could be ended...
...Crimson's centerfield position may have another gardener today if Ricker decides to pitch a left-hander. After using Charlie Walsh, Dick Clasby, and Bob Smith there last Saturday, McInnis may insert sophomore Dick Scheer against a port-sider. Otherwise, the line-up will remain the same as usual, with the exception of shortstop. There, junior Walt Greeley may get the nod in place of Ed Krinsky...