Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes, was not an easy man to pin down. He was cool, deliberate and professional, at times tripping up and correcting his questioners, at all times insisting on giving a precise answer. Knowing better than anyone that a possible perjury charge hung on his every word, he almost never offered a flat yes or a flat no. His favorite phrase, as he fenced tediously with the committee, was: "To the best of my recollection." He used it and similar phrases 198 times...
...American who observed Juliana at The Hague. Congress of Europe (TIME, May 17) last week drew a word picture of the Princess listening to Winston Churchill: "Juliana sat leaning forward, her firm chin firmly planted in her firm hand, squinting a little, nodding a little from time to time as she followed with an obvious effort Churchill's not very difficult line of thought. Her mien was strikingly familiar: it recalled the American matron who had learned at Bryn Mawr that an active interest in public affairs was the duty of an educated, responsible woman...
...word has spread through the hills of Anatolia. Turks stride with new confidence along the banks of the swift Kizil Irmak. They know now that the Russians cannot win. Have not the incredible Americans trained dogs to fly airplanes...
...Chicago Tribune thought Colonel Bertie McCormick was off on another simplified spelling jag. But the Page One story was simply a new way of reporting that old story, a new telephone directory. Reporter John T. McCutcheon Jr., son of the Trib's revered, retired cartoonist, had taken every word from names in the phone book...
There were only twelve jobs open, but when word got around Oklahoma last week, there were 250 applicants. The job: teaching school in Addis Ababa...