In his autobiography, What Mad Pursuit, Francis Crick wrote about his choice of the word dogma and some of the problems it caused him:

It was thus he formed, as his autobiography records: “ the deep impression of there being a man in Vienna who actually listened with attention to every word his patients said to him ... a revolutionary difference from the attitude of previous physicians ...” ( Jones 1959 p159 ).

The earliest identified use of the word toothbrush in English was in the autobiography of Anthony Wood, who wrote in 1690 that he had bought a toothbrush from J. Barret.

Knight sued for breach of contract, which resulted in a protracted legal battle and the band dropping the word " Railroad " from their name ( in his 2001 autobiography, " From Grand Funk to Grace ", Farner stated that the shortening of the band's name was done after most of their fans began to refer to them as Grand Funk ).

In his autobiography Opening Up, Atherton is candid about the fact that there are more colourful alternatives for " FEC "; the second word being " educated "; as suggested by his team mates at the time.

He began being called " Billy " after his grandmother ( Joan's mother ) started calling him " Bello " ( Italian masculine for " beautiful "; Martin said in his autobiography Number One that she would also call him " Bellitz ", a dialectical version of the same word ).

Carl Jung used the word in his mystical 1916 unpublished work, Seven Sermons to the Dead, which was finally published in Answer to Job ( 1952 ), and later in an appendix to the second edition of Jung's autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections ( 1962 ).

The word, and the image of the boffin-hero, were further spread by Nevil Shute's novel No Highway ( 1948 ), Paul Brickhill's non-fiction book The Dambusters ( 1951 ) and Shute's autobiography Slide Rule ( 1954 ).

What Lucas wrote about Housman ’ s Name and Nature of Poetry in 1933 ( though he contested some of its ideas ) sums up what he himself aspired to as a literary critic: "… the kind of critical writing that best justifies itself before the brevity of life ; that itself adds new data to our experience as well as arguing about the old ; that happily combines, in a word, philosophy with autobiography, psychology with a touch of poetry – of the ‘ poetic ’ imagination.

I would be religiously careful that every word He uttered should be a literal quotation from one of His sainted biographers .” Wallace says in his autobiography, “ When I had finished writing, I said to myself with Balthasar, ‘ God only is so great .’ I had become a believer.

In his autobiography, he claimed that he went as a representative for a wine and spirits company, although after the initial mention of that there is no further word and he appears also to have dealt in commodities that were in short supply because of rationing in England.

Alan Watts's autobiography, In My Own Way ( 1972 ), starts with the sentence: " Topophilia is a word invented by the British poet John Betjeman for a special love for peculiar places.

In 2004 he released his autobiography, Right Back to the Beginning: The Autobiography, which was described in a book review in The Times as " Authoritative and engaging, but at the same time warm-hearted and kind, there is not a harsh word, and hardly a critical one, in it ".

At the time the official word was that Stewart had decided to go into semi-retirement, however he later revealed in his autobiography that he was removed from the afternoon programme by then controller Jim Moir.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.

The first item in the operand, IOCSIXF, is used to specify the first IOCS index word for programs using tape files.

I have been using the word `` vocational '' as a layman would at first sight think it should be used.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.

The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

It is Rieux who treats the first victim of plague and who first uses the word plague to describe the disease.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

The word Applet was first used in 1990 in PC Magazine.

* In Bananagrams, players place tiles from a pool into crossword-style word arrangements in a race to see who can finish the pool of tiles first.

The word " electron " was coined in 1891 by the Irish physicist George Stoney whilst analyzing elementary charges for the first time.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.