Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigner he is indefatigable, impresses audiences with his friendliness and his erect bearing. No phrasemaker, his speeches are short, well-organized and delivered in a loud clear voice. He always asks for questions, repeats each question word for word before answering it. As soon as he finishes, he jumps for the door, shakes every hand he can reach. To prepare himself for the 1948 campaign, he made a nine-week, 16-country trip to Europe, interviewed Stalin, Attlee, Rama-dier, Benes, De Gasperi and the Pope...
Turning May 1 into a cut and dried deadline is the only way the Book Office will not be caught with their forms down. But although the date is well-publicized as far as students are concerned, the new word apparently hasn't reached all Departmental circles. The Book Office has received Reading Period authorizations from roughly only two-thirds of all middle-group courses. With less than two weeks remaining before their time is up, veterans with no list to go on are on the spot. And any lists that arrive in the next week will be useless...
...down his baton, bowed elegantly to his audience, and strode from the stage. The orchestra and audience remained in their seats, but Serge Koussevitzky did not return. In his place, amid a sudden hush, gold-spectacled Henry Cabot, president of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, slowly mounted the stage. The word had already gotten out that Harry Cabot had a very special announcement to make, and most of the audience had a good idea of what...
Last week, without consulting the newsmen, attorneys for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer gave up the fight; they forfeited the bonds in court. The Ledger-Enquirer management piously promised "not [to] abate its pursuit of full justice. . . ." But it apparently took the word of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that it would be "impossible" to win the case "since [the Klan] would be able to furnish approximately 175 witnesses against the newspaper reporters." At week's end, City Editor Joe Hall quit in disgust...
...William James, remembers just one comment: "I have a brother [Henry] who writes novels, and he used to be a very good writer, too, but since he got lazy and began dictating, his style has become groping and repetitious. I for one am no longer able to read a word he writes...