Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary to go to the Greeks for a word for Mr. McWhiney. I can think of several juicy English ones...
...clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule, Britannia. Resolutely Lady Wood hurled a bottle of wine after the retreating ship, shouted her 50-word speech above a din of cries and crackling timbers, burst into tears...
Volunteer spotters, eyes & ears straining for the sight or sound of high-flying "invaders," flashed word of the enemy approach to the fields where pilots stood ready to gun the 1,000-h.p. engines of 800 quick-climbing Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. The Territorial Army probed cloudbanks with searchlights, traced the paths of the invading bombers with the long snouts of their anti-aircraft guns. In London balloon barrage crews, on the alert 24 hours a day, inflated their tricky sausages and let them up 700 feet-far lower than would be needed to entangle a real enemy. Defending fighters...
...believe these stories about hamburgers selling for a dollar and a half. They cost a dime and they're not transparent or synthetic. . . . We have put a soul into this Fair. . . . It is the last word in the application of the genius of man. . . . Our Fair will not be remembered for any hootchy-kootchy dance-and a fan means nothing...
...Hambletonian Day card, the horses were sent off by a new-fangled starting gate: ropes hanging down from a wire drawn high over the starting line. Drivers were permitted 15 seconds (tolled off by a phonograph record) to jockey for position and cross the line. Those who jumped the word "Go" were disqualified...