Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what the people expect from the government and what they have against it. . .I think they are ready for the government and officials to turn over a new leaf." Quirino ordered the constabulary to withdraw its patrols, not fight unless attacked. To Luis Taruc, the Huk commander, he sent word that he was ready to offer a general amnesty if the Huks would turn in their guns. But lean Communist Luis Taruc was not planning to let the Huks do anything of the kind. He sent word back this week that he was ready for "revolution, if this...
...budget night came, External Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent moved into Abbott's seat to let the Finance Minister have the front-row place of honor next to the P.M. The House was only two-thirds full. M.P.s trickled in as Abbott started to read his 14,000-word speech. As he recited the hard facts of the nation's financial life, his voice got flat and toneless. More & more M.P.s left the chamber for a smoke...
...point out in his speech that the members were paying homage to "the qualities in his life and his work about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard took the medal but uttered not a word. Among the new members who were to be formally inducted (but failed to show up): Novelist John Dos Passes, Poet W. H. Auden, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson and Critic Bernard De Voto...
...newest, slickest, most popular performer of them all is a man who calls himself Gorgeous George. In Hollywood, some bars and grills no longer feature the single word "Television." They put out signs reading: "Gorgeous George, Television, Here Tonight...
...ground in the attitude of a Pagan worshipped . . . [and] I went and said to him, 'Do not lie there like a toad. Why not go to your regiment and be a man?' He turned up his face with a stupid, terrified look . . . and then without a word turned his nose to the ground." Other men, mad with terror, tried to hide in a fold in the ground: over them stood Union General Gibbon, saying "in a tone of kindly expostulation: 'My men . . . All these matters are in the hands of God, and nothing that...