European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 05, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best seller fiction a a a 1 the Sheress of Kell by David Eddings last week 1 weeks on list 5 2 the firm by John Grisham last week 2 weeks on list 8 a 3 heartbeat by Danielle steel last week 3 weeks on list. 11  a 4 Aspen Gold by Janet Dailey last week 6 weeks on list 3 5 the novel by James a. Michener last week 9 weeks on list 3 6 damage by Josephine Hart last week 5 weeks on list 6 a 7 the Druid of Shannara by Terry Brooks last week 4 weeks on list 8 8 the seventh commandment by Lawrence Sanders last week 7 weeks on list 2 9 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 10 weeks on list 29. 10 the Eagle has flown by Jack Higgins last week 8 weeks on list 8 non fiction 1 Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley last week 1 weeks on list 2 a a a a. A a a a a a a a a 2 you la never eat lunch in this town again by Julia Phillips last week 2 weeks on list 6 .3 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 3 weeks on list. 24 4 moving pictures by Ali Mcgraw last week 15 weeks. A on list 2. V a a 5 life is too Short by Mickey Rooney last week 7 a weeks on list 2. _ 6 a history of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani last week 4 weeks on list 5 v. 7 there Are no children Here by Alex Kotlowitz last week 9 weeks on list 2.8 my favorite summer 1956 Mickey Mantle first week on list a 9 i had a Hammer by Henry Aaron with Lonnie Wheeler last week 6 weeks on list 3 .10 in our defense by Ellen Alderman and Carolyn Kennedy last week 12 weeks on list 2 paperback fiction 1 message from Nam by Danielle steel first week on a a list. A a a a a a a a 2 the silence of the lambs by Thomas Harris weeks on list 29. 3 red dragon by Thomas Harris weeks on list 8 4 an inconvenient woman by Dominick Dunne weeks. _ on list 2 5 dances with wolves by Michael Blake weeks on list 21>6 the stand by Stephen King weeks on list 2 7 vendetta by Peter David weeks on list 2 _. 8 the Bourne ultimatum by Robert Ludlum weeks on list 99 the evening news by Arthur Hailey weeks on list 5 10 masquerade by Janet Dailey first week on list. A paperback non fiction 1 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert a Fulghum weeks on list 7 2 men at work by George will weeks on list 2 3 All i really need to know Learned in kindergarten Quot by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 76 4 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman weeks on list 38. A 5 storming Norman by Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta a weeks on list 3. 6 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 391 7 no one Here gets out alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugarman weeks on list 41 8 not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoodi with. William hotter weeks on list 16 9 the spy went dancing by Aline countess of roman ones weeks on list 3 a a 10 the search for the Green River killer by Carlton. Smith and Tomas Guillen weeks on list 9 paperback miscellaneous 1 the revenge of the baby sat by Bill Watterson a weeks on list 7 Quot 2 the to Factor Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle Quot and Martin Natahn weeks on list 40 a 3 All i need to know i Learned from my cat by Suzy Becker weeks on list 23. 4 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 20. 5 the to Factor diet by Martin Natahn weeks on list 6 compiled by the new York times a stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 heartbeat by Danielle steel 2 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz3 the Druid of Shannara by Terry Brooks 4 the Eagle has flown by Jack Higgins 5 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel a 6 Battleground by , Griffin 7 witching hour by Anne Rice. 8 magic hour by Susan Isaacs. 9 the secret Pilgrim by John be Carre 10 Sliver by Ira Levi non fiction. 1 Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley. A 2 and the sea will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi 3 the prize by Daniel Yergin 4 financial self defense by Charles Givens 5 the civil. War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns 6 Iron John by Robert Bly 7 life on the Road by Charles Kuralt 8 the next Century by David Halberstam Quot 9 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush 10 the new russians by Hedrick Smith a the a Izez have it for better language James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate not Jong ago a Reader sent in a clipping from the new York american. The Story dealt with major changes in the los Angeles police department. Quot. Instead of putting patrolmen on the Street the department planned to put officers in squad cars. A whole Fleet of new vehicles would he purchased. A the plan is expected to have far reaching results in ridding the City of undesirable  headline on the Story a los Angeles has Fordi cd its police  Fordi cd i bring this up by Way of remarking that the process of converting perfectly innocent nouns into mind boggling verbs has been going on for a Long time. The Barnhart dictionary of Tymo logy dates Quot to harmonized from 1483, a to memorize from 1591, a to criticize Quot from 1649. Our language would Bethe poorer without Many of the a a Izez verbs. Some a a Izez coinages of More recent Vintage Are not so felicitous. In Indiana a medicaid health insuring organization a  a contractor to reduce costs a writer in the Ligurian a concretize do a new years Resolution. Columnist Mary Mcgrory told the heartwarming Story of a family that adopted a Downs syndrome baby. Friends warned the  a you will disaster ize your  some other remarkable verbs have come floating in on a Spring tide of coinages. The Copley news service provided a feature on v _ diets a a diet mind set can subterfuge your weight loss efforts because it usually Means stringent rules and Boring  conjugate that verb when conversation palls columnist Judy Markey was watching the persian Gulf War on to. A you Are very weirder out by All this a she said. A movie critic in the Terre haute ind Tribune Star summarized the plot of a movie titled he said she said. The film has to do with two staffers on the Sun in Baltimore Quot Lorie is attracted to Dan but she is naturally enough of boxed by his  of boxed maybe so. A. A a. Readers have sent me citations of several words that Are new to them and new to me too but on inspection they proved not to be new at All. During the persian Gulf period Many a to viewer gritted to ctr at hearing that our troops were a Attr iting the iraqis. In the sense of a to Wear Down an opposing military Force a the verb dates from 1750. I wish it had stayed there. A performance of hello dolby la came to _ Cheyenne wyo., in december a this extravaganza is Laurel led yith the new York drama critics Circle  the verb a to Laurel Quot appeared Between 1250 and 1300. Please Send me clippings dated and identified of new words that come into your Ken. I will feed them into the omnivorous maws of Merriam Webster and the barn arts and together we May watch the language grow. Quot \ May 5, 1991 sunday. Page 9