Word: spattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush to rid itself of the weight of empire, Britain has often bestowed independence on lands that had no business accepting it. Botswana, for example, is an empty but now sovereign desert, Gambia a wriggle of jungle riverbank, and the Maldives a spatter of coral atolls mostly inhabited by starfish. Few lands, however, have been so ill-prepared to rule themselves as the Federation of South Arabia, which Britain announced last week will become independent by the end of November...
...More Roaring Metal. The Reading plant, says Roy Thompson, is a "cross between a laboratory and a hospital. No more of that hot, roaring metal. The typesetters wear ordinary clothes to work and don't spatter themselves with oil." The copy desk is just a few yards from twelve keyboard machines on which former linotypists type copy into the same sort of computer that some New York newspapers have vainly tried to install. The computer hyphenates and justifies lines to form even newspaper columns, thus eliminating one of the printers' biggest jobs...
...Cross charity gala in Monte Carlo, such celebrities as the Begum Aga Khan and Cinemactor David Niven were nicely sprinkled amidst 1,000 unknowns who paid $75 to dance and watch the Bluebell Girls of Paris prance. To the sprinkle, hélas, was added a spatter and then a downpour. The Prince looked a trifle Rainier than usual, but Princess Grace, 34, remained smilingly in place to the end of the show. Noblesse was scarcely obliged to make so gracious a gesture-what with a third addition to the royal family due in Monaco next February...
Presented with this evidence by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Planta's manufacturers last week admitted that the cause of the rash might well be the "better" Planta's chief new ingredient: a chemical emulsifier intended to cut down frying-pan spatter and improve taste. Hastily, Van den Bergh's & Jurgens' tried to recall the estimated 5,000,000 packages that had been distnouted to Unilever's 40,000 retail stores, took ads in 160 Dutch papers telling housewives that they could exchange their improved Planta for the old kind. The ads, signed simply...