Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will you allow me to say that TIME'S concluding account of the Amsterdam Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), while admirably generous in space, is lamentably distorted in perspective...
...have some fire and fight," Coach Valpey told his charges their first day out. Since then, the players have adopted those words. As the team comes out of a huddle, or digs in its toes on defense, you hear them say to each other, "Fire and fight...
Since the subject had come up, it seemed a good time to list a few of the "big, fat blimps of words" the News was really against: puff balls like "quadripartite," "unilateral" and "directive." "Why the boys can't just say 'four-party,' 'one-sided' and 'order' is beyond...
...real object of the kind of language the News believes in, said the editorial, is to say things so the public can understand them at a glance, "without having to go grubbing into a dictionary to find out what in the blue blazes you are trying to say...
...life on her father's Mississippi plantation. Her discontent spilled over: "Sometimes I wish I were a nigger or an Indian or anything that would keep me from having to be myself, Nora Potter, who goes to parties and pays calls, and sits by quietly, with nothing to say, while Mama does all the talking." Mama really talked incessantly, but now that Nora was up North, she too found her tongue, and ended by talking too much. She told her cousin Austin King, who was already married, that she loved him, and pinned her heart so conspicuously...