Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unidentified undergraduates spent a busy afternoon yesterday, if the word of one who gave his name as Chief Laughing Bull is to be believed. For, replete with war paint, blankets, feathers, moccasins, and blank cartridge pistols, the group staged an attack on the government-sponsored pioneer expedition in Warren, Massachusetts, just before sundown...
Whatever their prospects, they play Wednesday night. Take Skip's word for it; they may pull some fast ones...
...five of Boston University's 400 theological students. In them he instills his own technique. He broadcasts with his coat off and observes "Ten Radio Commandments": 1) Speak in a conversational tone; 2) Take your sermons not from the Bible, but from life; 3) Leave out the word "I"; 4) Neglect the needless; 5) No bunk; 6) No sob stuff; 7) Make the web of your sermon optimistic, cheerful; 8) Check and recheck your script before delivering . . . for absolute factual accuracy; 9) Keep the word "not" out of your sermon script; 10) Use no introduction. Plunge right into...
...History of Militarism, "much of military history is misleading as a result of the authors' deliberate intentions," most of the rest so stereotyped it is useless in determining what happened in any war. The confusion of battle is perpetuated because generals edit the official reports, and "word their orders in such an oracular fashion that victory, if it comes, can be traced to them, while failure, if it befalls," can be blamed on somebody else. To make sense of these bewildering official...
...take the last step, and the hardest one, you have to have a certain insanity born in you. Perhaps 'genius' is a better word. It's a certain inspirational spark...