Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appropriations Committee [New York's John Taber] thought about your protests? He said, 'The West is squealing like a stuck pig.' That is what the Republican leaders thought about you [in] this part of the world."* In touchy Texas, Candidate Truman had not a word to say about civil rights or Dixiecrats...
...nation's "wobbling" foreign policy. He pointed out that the 80th Congress had appropriated more money for reclamation than the preceding Democratic Congress, adding invariably: "Sometimes we don't talk so good but we perform." At the end he always introduced Mrs. Dewey, who said not a word but whose modest charm was cordially approved...
...than a year. His troops had struggled against dwindling supplies, semi-starvation, hordes of refugees and crumbling morale. Across the Yellow River, ten miles from Wang's Tsinan headquarters, wily Communist Commander Chen Yi, a strategist and a poet, had set up a "reception house," vigorously spread the word that all hungry Nationalist deserters would be welcome...
Last week 100 pasted pictures went on exhibition in Manhattan's wide-windowed Museum of Modern Art. The museum had fancy frames and a fancy French name for them, collages (rhymes with garage), which was the word Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris had used when they first tried the trick back...
About 750 people filed into a Chicago auditorium last week to hear Lynn Williams read the mayor's proclamation. Then Adler recited an 8,000-word catechism for Great Books readers, designed to help them defend the faith against attacks from unbelievers. The gist: "We don't claim we're going to cure the world, or cure flat feet. We do say we're going to do something for the mind...