Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Callipygian" is an easy, graceful word, and besides I have been to Naples-but "bedipitus" [TIME, July 26] does not appear to be in my copy of Webster's Unabridged . . . Where did you find...
Judging by the replies, you're a pretty attractive group. But see for yourself: The pictures illustrating this letter show just a few of the more than 400 TIME readers who took us at our word, sent us a snapshot. We were very pleased to get them...
...since the 1913 flood had Dayton been so excited. One day last week, word spread that big trouble was brewing on the picket lines at the Univis Lens Co. Some 7,500 Daytonians turned out to watch. They saw 160 policemen move in, pour tear gas into a yelling union mob. A savage, three-month-old strike in which heads had been bloodied, stink bombs tossed at non-strikers, ribs prodded by police billies, had reached its climax...
...Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...
...years ago, he was sitting under a Bo tree. Buddha's tree has been an object of reverence, ever since, and its offspring still stands amid ancient ruins at Anuradhapura, Ceylon, where it was brought in 246 B.C. Among Buddha's 150,000,000 followers word was spreading last week, however, that the sacred Bo was withering, and the prognosis looked bad. Adoring pilgrims knew only one thing to do: as generations of them had done before, they poured gallons of milk around its trunk...