Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exam-wise upperclass veterans had warned 'Cliffe freshmen that finals were no pink tea, and one earnest young scholar took the counsellors at their word...
...week by Washington Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop. Their story, which went scrupulously un-denied, said that the Big Bosses-New York's Ed Flynn, Chicago's Ed Kelly and Jake Arvey, New Jersey's Frank Hague, et al.-had agreed on Douglas and had sent word to him that he could have the No. 2 spot if he wanted it. Justice Douglas' answer was not revealed...
...hours), he spoke without script, working only from notes passed up on an assembly-line basis by his advisers. On the third day, Sir Mohammed spoke 2½ hours more. His gist: India was lying, was itself guilty of racial war against Pakistan or-in U.N.'s own word for it -of "genocide." Cried he: "[Moslems] are expected to say: 'My brother may have been killed, my father may have been killed, my wife may have been raped and my children butchered, but I ... must not retaliate.' That kind of thing might be expected of angels...
...bearded British Evangelist William Booth was pacing up & down as he dictated to his son Bramwell. "The Christian Mission," said Booth, "is a Volunteer Army." Then suddenly he leaned over his son's shoulder, crossed out the word "Volunteer" and substituted "Salvation." Thus he named the Army that has since planted its red-and-blue flag in almost every country in the world...
...believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests ; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages...