Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatically attentive to the wives, earnestly attentive to their husbands. What he said to them, although not new, was off the record. The burden of his speech was the Administration's friendly feeling towards U.S. business, a point which he made without humbleness and without apology for the past history of the Fair Deal. The evening ended in a brisk flurry of hand clapping, and Charles Sawyer drove glowingly home to his Palm Beach apartment...
...soldier may go to church (at Christmas quite a few slipped into Belgrade churches and hid in dark corners), nor may teachers or government workers, except at the risk of losing job and ration card. In the past five years the Communist regime has killed one Catholic bishop and imprisoned two. It has killed 350 to 400 priests and imprisoned an equal number...
...have a mind like blotting paper," British Lexicographer Eric Partridge once said. In the past dozen years, he has blotted up enough odd facts about words ("It becomes a dreadful habit") to fill a Dictionary of Slang, a Dictionary of Cliches and a Dictionary of the Underworld. Last week the latest product of his addiction was on U.S. bookshelves. Name into Word (Macmillan; $4.50) was a colorful catalogue of "proper names that have become common property...
Time was when college undergraduates surveyed themselves on such simple questions as war and politics, blondes and brunettes. In the Kinsey era, that is old hat. For the past three years the editors of the Yale Banner, New Haven's yearbook, have been asking students all sorts of personal questions. Last week the Banner flashed the dope about the "Human Yale...
...prayers were not the same, nor were they said together. There is a Roman Catholic ban on participating in formal worship not specifically Roman Catholic. But for the past ten years an English organization, known as the Church Union, has sponsored "Union of Christendom" meetings, at which, until four years ago, Roman Catholic priests spoke together with non-Catholic clergy and laymen...