Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your reviewer of Earl Schenck Miers' and Richard A. Brown's Gettysburg [TIME, May 31] does an injustice to the British observer with the Confederates, Colonel Arthur Fremantle, when applying the word "tactless" to Fremantle's remark to General Longstreet after the failure of Pickett's charge...
...pointed the poll's warning: "What is proved is that an overwhelming majority of ... voters are united in wanting the ablest leadership they can conceive . . . This Republican newspaper asks only that the Philadelphia convention rise to its opportunity and name .the strongest candidate who is available." The key word was the word "available...
Four hours later, John Lewis, who has always used the divide & conquer strategy by dealing separately with northern and southern operators, sent word to the judge that he would abide by the injunction. This week, he began his contract-fussing with all the operators...
...visit the U.S. while I was still there, and the American police, having learned of the strained relations between our two houses on account of what happened to Hugh [an O'Donnell defeated by the British at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601], were anxious to have a word with me." Peadar sought out a top man at headquarters, "and who should he turn out to be but a man from a village where I could name the dogs." After that, Manhattan's Irish cops gave him no trouble...
...King. One newspaper announced that Rivera had agreed to rub out the offending phrase and substitute another reading Negocio es negocio ("Business is business"). The painter hastily denied it. Hotel Director Luis Osio y Torres Rivas fumed that Rivera had promised, "on the word of a king," to put something different on Ramirez' placard, and then reneged on the grounds that he was, after all, "no king...