Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kelly made President Green the sole butt of his baiting. Reporter Kelly's usual comment at conferences with Secretary of Labor Perkins is: "Well, we see you've been defending John Lewis again." TIME also erred in substituting "flubdub"' for Reporter Kelly's far better word, "flapdoodle...
...Chicago conclave, encrusted though it was with the finest jewels of U. S. newspaperdom, was more like a resolutions committee-of-the-whole than like a convention. No one was elected to anything. No one was even nominated. After he had delivered himself of a 1,500-word oration on Freedom of the Press, President Stahlman, whose wit is as nimble as his sarcasm, settled down in the speaker's chair to conduct the meeting with good-natured flippancy, cutting short the long-winded, moving things along at a swift pace. Only real business at hand was the wording...
What caused most argument during distillation was the choice of one word in the last paragraph: should the publishers express "determination" not to enter into contracts for a Guild shop, or "refusal," or "unwillingness...
...aside a Northrop Gamma for experiments, last year made a big splash of headlines by coining the word "over-weather." Theory was that at 35,000 ft. it was always clear, always calm, all winds were steady. That this was not entirely the case was presently proved by TWA's crack Test-Pilot Daniel W. ("Tommy") Tomlinson. Burly and devil-may-care, he learned his flying in the Navy's celebrated acrobatic-team of Sea Hawks, of whom he is the sole survivor. Known as "Indian Joe" to the fleet, Tomlinson would stunt at night with lights...
Given 20 days to file a reply, neither PGA President Jacobus nor any other man involved would say a word last week...