Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second band, arriving considerably later, smeared the newly painted administrative building on Commonwealth Ave. with blue paint, defacing the concrete steps with the word "Harvard" and leaving blue blotches on the white walls...
Rejecting an opportunity to ratify the document under grants of power set forth in its own constitution, the Council agreed that students of the College should have the last word in the matter...
...newsmen, Governor Tom explained that he was a guest and it would be discourteous if he said a single political word. He was simply an interested farmer (486 acres near Pawling, N.Y.). "Farming," said Tom Dewey, "has been the principal interest in my life for the last ten years." Trim and tanned (he had been getting in his hay, he said), he talked easily about the poor state of the corn crop, the merits of artificial insemination of cattle, and got his picture taken with a prize...
...loved by neither. Onetime leader of Germany's Communists, she was tossed out of the party in 1926 and now edits an anti-Stalinist newsletter in the U.S. Gerhart she has described as "the perfect terrorist type," Hanns "a Communist in every philosophical sense of the word." Hanns in turn calls her his "former sister" and Gerhart refers to her as a member of a "rogue and rat gallery...
Grenadine's father was believed to be "the bastard son of an English King who had despoiled a Scottish maid between the act of shooting grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind...