Word: edicted
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...July 1 the entire U.S. will go under job control advertised as the most drastic in its history. This edict came from Manpower Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt, who three weeks ago blithely assured newsmen: "We're pretty well on top of tho whole problem. . . . Oh, there are a few critical spots, but. . ." (TIME...
...patience of Army postal officers was at an end. They issued a stern edict: after St. Valentine's Day, imprints of lipstick will no longer be tolerated on Vmail...
Others had. Passionate Internationalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer, for instance, who last February had resigned from his job as deputy director of OWI to conduct an uninhibited newspaper column on world affairs, submitted the hottest : "This Pravda piece means simply the breakdown of Anglo-American diplomacy." And the Moscow edict may indeed have been a unilateral P.S. to the Teheran communi...
...availed you. He really didn't smell bad on purpose. He was a dull normal, his mother probably a moron. When verbal warnings failed to beget the desired attar of roses, teacher moved him four seats from the nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo, if not by edict, conveyed to the class the idea that Johnny was ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny too got the idea. They were against him. Ergo, he was against them. So he stabbed the leader of the class in the spine. ... A simple technique is to call the child a name. Willie...
...during the occupation Munk's voice has attacked the Nazis from his pulpit. He has written many a biting pamphlet distributed by the Danish underground. His last defiant gesture before his arrest came a few weeks ago when he flatly refused to obey the Nazi edict to cease prayers for the persecuted Norwegians. Wrote Munk: ". . . I intend to dis obey. . . . Danish clergymen take an oath on the Bible, but not yet to the Foreign Secretary. . . . I feel bound to my Norwegian brothers because they are . . . brothers in the faith. They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn...