Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word from the mountains was nike -victory. The Grammos battle was officially over. Clambering up the stark, grey slope of Grammos' highest peak, weary, tattered Greek soldiers unfurled the blue and white national flag. Some crossed themselves gratefully; others wept...
When the proclamation was being considered by the State Council, grey-bearded, scholarly Rabbi Juda L. Fishman spoke for the Mizrachi, or orthodox Jews. He asked that the word Elohenu (Our Lord) be used. Agricultural Minister Aron...
Premier David Ben-Gurion suggested a compromise: Tsur Israel (Rock of Israel). Zisling still objected. Said he: "Let it not be imposed upon those who believe otherwise ... to say faith in the Rock of Israel . . . The present wording forces upon us an expression of belief to which we do not subscribe." Ben-Gurion had the last word: "Each of us in his own way believes in the Rock of Israel as he understands it. I know what is the Rock of Israel upon which I rely. I am sure that Rabbi Fishman knows well in whom he believes...
...London, George Bernard Shaw's advice of the week was to avoid war by producing a dictionary of political terms, in which the meaning of each word would be made quite clear. "The matter is extremely urgent," declared Shaw. ". . . Negotiation is impossible unless the parties use the same words for the same things and understand what the words mean . . . I myself find it impossible to make myself understood . . . Even liars need a language that will enable them to lie unambiguously...
...newspaper buildup but word of mouth that sent thousands of fans and curiosity-seekers to Yankee Stadium, the "House That Ruth Built," after his widow agreed (too late for most afternoon papers to report it) that he should lie in state there. Whether 82,000 people filed past his bier, or 97,000, or 115,000, depended on which paper you read. Reporters patrolled the shuffling line to extract suitably printable comment...