Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vishinsky's phrase was gentlmenskoe soglashenie; the Russian language has borrowed the word "gentleman" from English. † This procedure has not always been followed; two years ago, when Russia backed the Ukraine for a Security Council seat, the U.S. and Britain backed India. The Ukraine was elected...
Belgium's sharpened political temper interfered with Leopold's vacation plans. When Premier Eyskens got word of the proposed Tyrol trip, he snapped to the King's secretary in Brussels: "Tell His Majesty that he must forget the invitation. Belgian public opinion has a disagreeable remembrance of Leopold's visits to Austria during the German occupation...
...prevent cancer, Hueper believes, is to cut out, or at least cut down, the conditions of contact; better yet, use harmless materials instead of those with cancer-producing properties. Some industries have already made a beginning, he noted, but the process could be stepped up by spreading the word on environmental causes of cancer through industrial management and "health agencies, including the medical profession...
...decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break forth from God's word and by the love which will not let us go, then 1950 will see a momentous turning point in Christian history...
When he is asked to describe his Government career, 55-year-old Assistant ECAdministrator Wayne Chatfield Taylor gives a rueful one-word reply: "Bruises." A New Deal stalwart for 17 years, ex-Investment Banker Taylor picked up many a bump as Assistant AAAdministrator, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of Commerce (he directed the famous wartime eviction of Sewell Avery from Montgomery Ward), and president of the Export-Import Bank...