Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these questions Amsterdam met an even stiffer stalemate than on its attempt to define the word "church." There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology. Most U.S. Christians, as shown by Bromley Oxnam's tireless example, believe in muscular, active Christianity-serving their faith by works. To U.S. liberal Protestantism, most European Christians have a let-George-do-it reliance...
...Junk the gingerbread monstrosity on 39th Street and build a modern opera house, equipped with the last word in mechanical, electrical and acoustical stage devices...
What's needed, concluded the London Daily Express, is a new name for television-"some catchy, friendly word which can be called over the garden fence without sounding silly." Even the inventive U.S. had been unable to think up anything better than video...
Last week the baleful word marijuana* was on every Hollywood tongue. The most self-conscious city of a self-conscious nation was in for a first-rate scandal, and it hated and feared every whisper...
...tell (like the one about Warrior Fionn's wonderful swordsmith, who had four hands and could turn out two swords at a time). Other stories took only a few minutes (like the simpleton who outwitted the lawyer). Angus learned them all by heart, and never changed a word...