Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the speeches, few people had been watching the planes. The crowd now turned toward the planes, and saw six sailors bearing out a flag-covered coffin. "His last words," Bucher continued, "were that he was proud to have served in the United States Navy.... He was a hero in every sense of the word...
After Harrison had resumed his seat on the bench--unhappily is not precisely the word--Dullea converted the one-and-one situation, reestablishing the four point margin. Jay Noble, another sophomore who replaced Dover, responded under pressure with a 15 foot jump shot from the right, and, then, with 57 seconds left, stole the ball and passed it to Hardy...
...real estate under the name of J. M. Tenney Corp. After the firm reappeared in 1967 with its new name, stories about Omega as an "entertainment-field" conglomerate began turning up in the financial pages. According to one tale, it was about to take over 20th Century-Fox. Word of the SEC's investigation of Omega got out to a few well-informed investors, who quickly turned in their Mates Fund shares. Strapped for cash, Mates was forced to endure the fund manager's ultimate humiliation: he had to call on other funds to peddle parts...
Director Neal Kenyon and Set Designer Peter Harvey had to be ingenious. With a ministage and a cast of only six, they set out to spoof the movie musicals of the 1930s, with all their intricate dance routines and big, glittering production numbers ("lavish" was the Depression word for them). One clever device is a movable frame inside the proscenium that makes the stage even smaller than it is, so that it can then be expanded to produce the illusion of large-scale operations. Another nice trick is one pair of panels at stage center that slide open to reveal...
...Homestead steel strike in 1892 (eight years after Allan's death) that finally turned the word Pinkerton into a hated synonym for union-breaking muscle; for during that strike, Winchester-toting agents were imported as "watchmen." As late as the 1930s, Pinkertons were finding congenial work playing labor spies on behalf of management. For today's Pinkerton heirs, however, the intoxicating old self-righteousness is gone. Robert II, the fourth generation of detective Pinkertons, who would have preferred to remain a Wall Street broker, is now chairman of the board. Seventy branch offices are tamely staffed with...