Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Judge Francis J. Ford coldly: "The defendant . . . is sane. He is a fanatic. Counsel for the Government said he was a snob-I do not adopt the word. [But] he was willing to adopt any ideology that would give him a chance to associate with people that he thought were of some importance. He expected Germany to win the war. What type of sentence shall I impose that will act as a deterrent to others...
...bank and most of India's cement factories. He also has four wives. Last month Businessman Dalmia, a Hindu, summoned the press to pink lemonade, vanilla ice cream and green gage plums on the lawn of his big house in New Delhi. Then he read a 2,500-word statement. "I ask that people treat the cow and look after it as well as they look after their mother."† Soon thereafter, his six newspapers began referring to Dalmia as president of the "Cow Protection League." They designated...
...line. "We need those cars," said he, "and, damn it we're going to get 'em." That carried the teapot tempest right into the Dominion Cabinet. It dug through piles of memoranda, stacks of statistics, sadly concluded that Canada's railroaders had failed to keep their word mainly because they could not bring themselves to return the cars empty. Get going, said the Cabinet and hang the expense...
...first time Floyd Starr heard the word adoption, he was a little boy and its meaning had to be explained to him. The idea appealed to him. As he grew older, he decided that some day he would adopt some children (though he had a wife and two kids of his own). In 1913, with $60,000 he had inherited, he bought 40 acres of rocky land just outside Albion, Mich, and opened the Starr Commonwealth school. The entrance requirements were the reverse of most prep schools': he wanted no boys of good reputation...
...misuse of the medium, and there's no use putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance of the people who make movies. They create in perfect cynicism what they think will sell . . . . I have no word to say of what I think of their [the movies'] evil. I don't go; I can't take the beating...