Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the years, the editors met frequently, debated what to do about words of prejudice, such as nigger and kike (nigger got in, with the crisp warning: "A substandard term"). Finally, the most specialized new words went out to consulting experts for definition. One of the new dictionary's "youngest" definitions (written by Historian Hans Kohn of Smith College): iron curtain-"a barrier created by censorship, prohibition of free travel, etc , to isolate Russian-controlled territory from outside contact...
...sense-making 30 minutes, with the emphasis switched from news to guest stars. Last week, Preview took an editorial look at the phrasemaking of Winston Churchill. Then it turned quickly to such eye-catching items as the Katherine Dunham dancers, Singer Eugenie Baird, Cinemactor Kirk Douglas. It was a crisp, entertaining, fast-paced show, and its climbing Hooperating put it right up in the first ten. But it was no longer a news-reporting "magazine of the air." More & more, McCrary's Preview was beginning to look like that old TV standby-vaudeville...
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson was just the man for the job, declared Hearstling Handwriting Expert Muriel Stafford, after a look at the crisp Acheson script. "It is interesting," she pointed out, "that both General Marshall and Dean Acheson write a firm, left-slanted writing. Both are reserved men, clear, swift thinkers, and strong willed . . . Dean Acheson has the added gift of intuition, shown in his quickly written, disconnected writing ... Low capitals indicate a modest man . . . he is also extremely literary. This is a cultured writing in the finest sense of the word...
When he was teaching about Sam Johnson, Professor Chauncey Tinker seemed a good deal like the great Samuel himself. He was a crisp and courtly figure, far from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how to command attention. For more than 25 years, Chauncey Brewster Tinker's Yale classroom was one of the two or three most popular on campus...