Word: wor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news that German planes might blow it up: nobody really believed it, but everybody did his best to see that somebody else did something about it. Even Communist officials urged their members to save water. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, and radio announcers ceaselessly proclaimed the emergency. Station WOR distinguished itself in particular with a doggerel sung to the tune of Turkey in the Straw...
...addition to the television coverage, WHDH will provide radio coverage of the game for the Boston area and the Mutual Network will carry it to the rest of the country. The program will be broadcast over WOR in New York and over WYBC, the Yale counterpart to WHRB, in New Haven...
...hole Lodge go by he said: "Those youngsters are born Socialist. The blood on the coal's the same as wot's in their veins. I couldna bin two year old when me dad first carried me on 'is shoulder behind that banner. 'E wor unemployed then and for years aft.gr...
...remember when we wor turned out of our colliery 'ouse-nowhere ter go because the coal owners owned all the 'ouses. We slept where we could, till me dad got work again. But me mother died-she couldna stand it no longer. And when I wor 13,1 started in the pits pushing tubs...
...newsmen from the days when he ran the State Department's Near East desk, talked over old times with the New York Times's Bertram Hulen (veteran of 23 years on the State Department beat), TIME'S Jack Werkley, Business Week's Thomas Falco, WOR's Pulitzer-prizewinning H. R. Knickerbocker...