Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week, before a scant ten members of the House of Deputies, Deputy Pomar stood up and read a rousing, 2,000-word manifesto from Communist Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. It was a statement of party position and a call to arms: "We must block the march of reaction . . . resist without weakening . . . fight for our rights. . . We must organize in our places of work, in the mills, on the farms . . . resorting when necessary to strikes. . . Prove to your fellow workers the real necessity of fighting and resisting the government of hunger, the government of political terror. . . We must fight...
...saying a word were the five words from Bingham on this matter yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile the hero of the piece could scarcely be reached while in the act, so it would seem, of returning to the Mud First State by rail...
...fought. his case to the last and highest court of all-the House of Lords. The Lords, represented by five peers of the realm, turned Mr. Baxter down. Parliament, they said, understood the word "consummate" as it was "understood in common parlance and in the light of social conditions known to exist," which, the Lord Chancellor added, included the establishment of birth control clinics...
...momentum for an eight or a loop-change-loop. She always seems to be enjoying herself, and as a result people always enjoy watching her. She has equilibrium, charm and style. A U.S. skating judge, who likes to define the quality of a skater in one word ("push" is his word for Sonja), puzzled over Barbara Ann a while, then described her quality as "femininity...
...even than its sky-high size is Lyons' style. Lyons provides everything from buns to banquets (for thousands), with an atmosphere of elegance, and at low prices. The term "nippy", with which Lyons tagged its waitresses after a sprucing-up campaign in 1925, has become a British household word for an efficient, pleasant servant...