Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hallowed Word. Then he turned serious. "I have had every honor to which any man could aspire. There is no place on the whole earth except here in America where all the sons of man could have this chance in life ... I have worked in governments of free men, of tyrannies, of Socialists and of Communists. I have met with princes, kings, despots, and desperadoes. I have seen the squalor of Asia, the frozen class barriers of Europe. And outstanding everywhere to these great masses of people there was a hallowed word-'America.' To them...
...first religious skywriting since the invention of the airplane:* a plane which inscribed an eleven-mile-long JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
...course) and send her admirers away happy. This might be true, provided she could remain her buoyant blonde self, complete with legs. When she tried to hide behind long skirts and a prim Victorian manner in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, the faithful were outraged. Many of them got the word and stayed away altogether; more than 100,000 others complained of the sacrilege by mail. Miss Pilgrim, an attempt to tinker with the Grable formula, is that rare Grable picture that lost money...
...Indeed if we are using language, in a truly Christian way, there is no such entity as 'a God.' There is only one God, and in the Christian sense there could not conceivably be more . . . Peter Damiani, the medieval divine, commenting on the words uttered by the serpent in Eden ('Ye shall be as gods'), remarked that the Devil was the first grammarian when he taught men to give a plural to the word 'God.' It should have neither a plural nor the indefinite article. It is a proper name...
From the moment when U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith and Britain's Frank Roberts arrived in Moscow, mum was the word. It was even mummer after Reuters' Dallas and the Herald Tribune's Newman cabled a beat: STALIN EXPECTED RECEIVE ENVOYS TOMORROW NIGHT. Furious at the leak, the envoys swore embassy staffs, down to typists and cipher clerks, to secrecy...