Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being delayed. At my request, Judge Stephen Jackson, who is assistant to Joseph Breen, director of the Motion Picture Code Authority, came on from Hollywood to act as an impartial negotiator. I also had Otto Preminger, director of the picture, fly on from California as soon as I received word of the Legion's action, and he participated in discussions on possible changes...
...this week, 2½ years after Nagasaki, five men walked into the White House and laid before Harry Truman a 50,000-word document. They were members of a commission which he had appointed last July to write an air policy for the U.S. Their document, written in the onrush of world events in the last half of 1947, was the most ambitious report on U.S. air power...
...press conferences, he always sat behind President Roosevelt's big desk, a small, stooped man with bright, hooded eyes in a seamed face. Behind the hornrimmed glasses he looked bored and glum. He seldom said a word. He didn't have to. As the Democrats' ghostwriter and hatchet man, Charley Michelson got the party's biggest guns...
Elder Warren helped tend some of the wounded. Said he: "Those Reds are plucky. ... I boiled water and got food for them. I also reminded them that when they found our chapels they usually destroyed them. . . ." At Hankow the missionaries got word of their hospital back in Yencheng: it had been burned...
Cramer's parting words, as I pressed the last of $34 of CRIMSON money into his hand, were, "I just hope the word doesn't spread around too much about this. All I'd need would be an article about it in the school paper...