Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the word "Eisenhower" was stripped from posters in the headquarters' windows; in its place went the word "Pepper"-painted in red-just under the words "The People's Choice for President." But Claude Pepper was not even the choice of his own Florida delegation...
...compensate for a lack of "visual cues," the kinesthetic method supplies tactile ones: her students begin by tracing a word with their fingers until it can be written without a model. They learn only the words they need for the "stories" she has them write. After these stories are written, she has them typed so that the proud author learns to recognize his words in print. Once a word is learned, the tracing model of it is stowed away in a "dictionary box" for future reference. The word must never be copied from the model; that would involve distracting...
...Archbishop of Canterbury welcomed the bishops last week in words that many an Anglican will remember: "Our communion is no longer English or British or Anglo-Saxon . . . But it is still called the Anglican, the English Communion; and though the word is no longer altogether appropriate for this diverse family of autonomous churches, yet it bears witness to a truth of the past and to a truth of the present . . . Every one of the churches here represented traces its ancestry back to the church of these islands, and so to Canterbury and to St. Augustine ... To that tradition of Christian...
...bookish but unpretentious sort, Allen likes to play parlor word-games, cowboy pool and the snare drum, clock track meets, paint in water colors, study his fellow man on street corners, and trade ideas about everything from college-girl fashions to Jake Kramer's backhand...
Schary said he would resign, but Hughes, as usual, had the last word: a fortnight before the date agreed upon, he summarily canceled three pictures that Schary had announced for production. Producer Schary quit two days later. Cracked the studio's new boss: "It saved me paying him two weeks' salary...