Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wadleigh had originally promised to notify the Resistance if he received word of a bust in order to protect students from the panic and disorder an unexpected bust might cause, the editor said...
...HAVE nothing against the word "fuck" per se. But when a playwright uses it as often as I blink my eyes, I expect him to provide some of the excitement this word suggests. In Sligar and Son, author Andy Hoye fires away with enough expletives for five LeRoi Jones one-acters, yet the four-letter word that most aptly describes his play is "dull...
...nolo contenders and they were each fined $3,000, more than half of the $5,000 maximum in a case of this kind. No where was there the slightest evidence that Humphrey had taken any special interest in the Ewald case. He answered the Trib story in a word: "Bunk...
...other countries, heckling is a sometime thing. The French do not even have a word for it. In Japan, speakers were once measured by their ability to stare protesters down, but heckling has become rare since World War II. Heckling is most common in Britain, where it is something of an art, designed to test a speaker's combativeness and quickness of wit. Appropriately, the word comes from the Middle English "hekele," to tease or comb flax, or broadly "to tease with questions...
...unusual request was dispatched to Pope Paul seven weeks ago, and was made public by the senders because-perhaps understandably-it had not been answered by Rome. In their eight-page, 2,000-word letter, the priests charged that there was a "communications gap" between Lucey and his clerics, which had resulted in "an atmosphere of fear, alienation and dissatisfaction on the part of many priests." Citing a decree of the Second Vatican Council that urged bishops to discuss pastoral matters with their priests, the petitioners claimed that Lucey "has steadfastly refused even to acknowledge the existence...