Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this, the idea of negotiation is not highly esteemed on its legal merits since the parties cannot assume that they have certain basic legal rights assured, Fairbank writes. He continues: "Consequently, when we urge negotiations upon Hanoi, we are not aware of the lower valuation put upon the word in their tradition." Negotiation is viewed, Fairbank explained, as an alternative or even an adjunct to the use of force in conflict resolution...
...protected us from McCarthy, it helped some people get draft deferments, and it probably put in a good word to the Internal Revenue Service when NSA applied for tax-exempt status," Groves said...
...Formally, the Religious Society of Friends, whose original members were dubbed "Quakers" for exhorting mankind to "tremble at the word of the Lord...
...Trappist who carelessly lets words drop on other occasions is required to do penance by prostrating himself across the doorway of his abbey's refectory or sanctuary. As a substitute for the spoken word, a rudimentary sign language is the custom. For example, two fists struck against each other vertically means "work"; the index fingers and thumbs formed into a diamond signifies "bread." But in today's complex world, with Trappists operating farms and small industries, sign language is not enough. Says one Catholic prelate: "A few years ago we still used horses, but how is a monk...
...verse. Scarcely a grade school or children's library in the U.S. is without his books, which are used mainly to help beginning readers get a kick out of reading. Geisel once based his book texts-as most publishers of reading primers still do-on standardized basic word lists. But he now considers such lists so much hogwash, because today's television-viewing children have an expanded vocabulary, uses any word "that has to do with a child's life and hopes...