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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What would Jean Boewet say to all that? He would probably just shrug. Experts with briefcases, speeches in committees! If he had a word for it, it would doubtless be le mot de Cambronne.* And even those committees, most of them, were hardly more than at Halfway House : nobody was surrendering any national sovereignty just yet. But there was more to come. At The Hague this week, Europeans who want a United States of Europe will gather to talk it over. No government has sponsored their meeting, but hundreds of British and French publicists and politicians, including Winston Churchill, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Toward a United Europe | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Three generations of Canadians were proud of the word "Dominion." In 1926 Prime Minister King accepted it in the Imperial Conference's definition of Canada's nationhood.* Of late there have been rumbles. (A bill to change "Dominion Day" to "Canada Day" passed the House two years ago, died in the Senate.) Last week tall, talkative Bona Arsenault, Liberal from Bonaventure, introduced a bill to strike out "Dominion" from all acts and regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: The Meaning of Words | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...team's chances tomorrow, can Harvard really upset the men from New Haven? The answer lies in the little word "if". If Captain Frank Gurley can bounce back after disposing of Wade in the mile to beat Stoltman in the 880. If Pat McCormick can get two seconds, maybe even a first and a second against Cook and Grimes in the hurdles...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Bulldog Track Squad Favored Over Varsity | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...typically for all areas which are occupied by the Russian. The beginning of all was to occupy all offices with men, who . . . were formed for their tasks in Russian political-schools. All men who were real democrats were out away, and if one of them said only one word against the men, who reigned now in a "real-democratically manner," he came into a concentration-camp. You may say this is an institution of the "Nazi-time." Yes, it was, but there is only one difference. In the years 1933-45 only a dew Germans knew of this institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

Underneath the word "damn'd," a heavy black noose is drawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Celebrates 140th Anniversary; Organization, Founded in 1808, Runs Orchestra | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

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