Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little shop, whose dusty windows bore the society's name in proud gilt letters, the committee met each week. Around the bare table sat 30 miners, some straight from the pit, the coal dust still runneled into their sweat-sticky faces. Bevan always spoke precisely and to the point. He had suffered from a bad stammer (caused by an uninformed but successful effort to "correct" his left-handedness), but had overcome it by reciting Shakespeare out loud and forcing himself to speak up in public...
Said Bevan to the Tredegar Aid Society: "I believe that orthopedic surgery can be of great benefit to many miners and I would fight all the doctors of the British Medical Association to prove my point." Or he would cry in his Welsh singsong: "If a specialist is away in Bristol, why should we not be able to send our men to him? Why should not a miner have the right to the best treatment...
...Formers," proclaimed the Daily Express, "ar welcum to Docter Folics nu Inglish. WE PREFER IT AS IT IS." But the Evening Standard felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...
...weeks' leave in Miami, 1st Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, onetime fast-stepping West Point football star, sidestepped questions about his reported engagement to Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17. Just after the warm greeting, a conscientious photographer caught Elizabeth helping Glenn wipe away the traces of lipstick...
...seemed to the 40 that it took Harvard's orotund Astronomer Harlow Shapley hours to get to the point. First he had to make a little speech, then announce the names of the eight runners-up, make them each take a bow. Finally the two winning names shot out. First prize: Dwight Taylor. Second: studious, pretty 16-year-old Caroline Stuart Littlejohn of Oklahoma City...