Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...license to run a water-taxi service from a Congress Street dock to Logan Airport. Cherub-cheeked Joe, who holds down a $5,200-a-year job as a construction inspector for the Curley-controlled city housing authority, pleaded nolo contendere (I ain't sayin' a word...
...embryonic plans were based on hopes of a voluntary truce in Palestine. No settlement would work if it had to be imposed by force. In Palestine last week, force was the only word...
Editorially, the slow-footed Enquirer is outboxed by the nimble Scripps-Howard Post, which recently backed a successful local campaign to keep proportional representation, over Enquirer opposition. And it still suffers from typographical schizophrenia: modern headlines adjoin archaic one-word holdovers of Civil War days. But the Enquirer can afford to move slowly; it has a monopoly on the morning field. There was a fair chance that the Enquirer's trustees had put too high a price on the paper. Bids, due May 15, might not come within a mile of the $10 million the trustees hoped...
...habit of stopping in the midst of traffic while he groped painfully for the right word; his conversation, with its "Chinese nests of parentheses" and its sentences that "dropped to the floor and bounced about like tiny rubber balls"; his way of coming into a room, carrying his silk hat, stick and gloves; his reputation as both a wit and a bore ("Nobody bored him," said Violet Hunt, "he took care of that. . ."); his reputation for incomprehensibility ("Poor old James," said George Meredith, "he sets down on paper these mysterious rumblings in his bowels -but who could be expected...
...matter on which side of the fence faculty opinion falls, however, Miss Sherman added, the final word will come from the 19-girl 'Cliffe Student Council, representing all 'Cliffedwellers...