Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clifford saw it, the President would have nothing to lose. If Fred Vinson, in man-to-nTan fashion, could get some reassuringly peaceful word out of Stalin, the whole world would cheer. It might even be the miracle needed to keep Harry Truman in the White House. Jubilantly Mr. Truman approved of the idea...
...Word." Somehow, the story remained a secret in Washington for three days. Then the cat was let out of the bag -while Harry Truman was campaigning, in upstate New York. He returned to Washington in time to meet Marshall, debarking from the "Presidential Special." The President turned away reporters with a gay wave. Didn't he have something to say about the Vinson affair? He grinned: "Not a word...
...White House, changed from a grey fedora to a sand-colored sombrero, got back into the limousine and was driven to National Airport, where he joined Lovett and others in the reception committee for Marshall. The Secretary's plane had been circling overhead for ten minutes, waiting word that the President had arrived. The plane set down. A tired, ashen-faced, 68-year-old George Marshall alighted, smiling wanly. A grinning Mr. Truman greeted...
Some of the freshest, as well as some of the stalest, writing in U.S. newspapers appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...stock at lof a share. He has agreed, at an undisclosed salary, to plug the juice on a transcribed song & chatter program five days a week. (Philco Corp., which has Crosby under exclusive contract, has agreed to let him be Minute Maid's man for a daily kind word for Philco products...