Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After several jobless years, punctuated by pavement-pounding, a two-letter word of negation, and the dissonance of discouragement, I am still convinced that there is a niche (not in a mausoleum!) for me where I can be useful and at the same time self-respecting...
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...scholars guessed that, with the missing vowels supplied. JHVH should be written "Jehovah," pronounced "Yah-weh." This belief was followed in the 1901 American Standard Bible- U. S. edition of the English Revised Version of the King James Bible. Today, scholars have their doubts about the authenticity of the word "Jehovah." Last week, Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther Allan Weigle announced that "Lord" would be substituted for "Jehovah" throughout the Standard Bible, added: "Jehovah is not a functioning religious term. People don't use it; they don't think of praying to Jehovah...
More startling was a recent radio capture. Four desperadoes in jail in Omaha slugged their guards and got away. Soon law & order and law's new kibitzer, radio, were hot in pursuit. First word of the escaped convicts came by telephone to radio station WOW, reporting them heading toward Gretna, 23 miles southwest of Omaha. Soon police, newsmen and radio newscasters with mobile transmitters were on the trail, among them WOW's dapper News Editor Foster...
Only witness to the Don's descent into Hell was his scalawag servant, Leporello, word was no more trustworthy than his master's. Doña Ana, her suitor Don Ottavio and Leporello set off for Juan's country home, to tell Juan's father of his son's strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face...