Word: dialectically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forgery in Stone? Doubters soon spoke up to spoil the fun. Experts on old Norse writing claimed that the language was like no known Scandinavian dialect. Authorities decided that the stone was a forgery. It was probably carved, they thought, by a friend of Farmer Ohman, an unfrocked Swedish minister who was known to have had a Swedish grammar with a section on runes. During the past 50 years few real experts have even bothered to study the discredited stone...
...officer in the Reserves; Icardi, 23, was a slim, daring, bright-eyed young University of Pittsburgh law student; the third American dropped on Mt. Mottarone was Sergeant Carl G. LoDolce, 22, their quiet, plodding radioman, a factory worker before the war. Of the three, only Lieut. Icardi spoke the dialect of the province...
...Tribesmen strategy is to head for a small village, pick up the dialect and try to make friends with the natives, then push on into the hinterland where white men have never been. They are steeled to the fact that conversions will be few & far between, even to the possibility of being received with war hatchets or poisoned arrows. Five missionaries were killed in Bolivia by Indians in 1943. But in spite of hardship and hazard, New Tribes attracts plenty of candidates for its work. There are 190 of them overseas-mostly in South America-living on about...
...Russia. In 1946, he came back to Germany and stepped into his seemingly legitimate job in the Ministry of Transport. He has a glowing bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby that his staff refer to him covertly in the Berlin dialect as "Pfannkuchen uff Beene"-pancake on legs. But inside, as the West is learning to its discomfort, Ernst Wollweber is still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters speckle Western Germany. His saboteurs have infiltrated West Germany so extensively in recent...
Thurber family sessions were marked by plenty of mimicry. William and Robert were good mimics (and still are), but Jim was even better. One day, during their young manhood, he phoned William and pretended to be a tailor, claiming in dialect to have made a suit for him which had not been called for, and demanding to be paid. Flabbergasted, William swore he had never ordered the suit and finally put his mother on the phone. After some angry argument, she challenged the tailor to describe William.† "Ha!" said Jim. "It's a fine mudder...