Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word is bananas; Josephine Baker did not hide her jungle charms behind bandanas...
...C.I.O. hoped it would be prosecuted. In Washington, A.F.L. and C.I.O officials met to map further strategy. Phil Murray sat down with the lawyers of his C.I.O. unions. The A.F.L.'s General Counsel Joe Padway and some 100 A.F.L lawyers went over the law's text word by word...
Before the first meeting ended Idaho's tent-show Senator Glen Taylor had yodeled and played his guitar, and Congressman Homer Angell of Oregon had urged the elders "not to despair or grow weary." But Dr. Townsend said not a word. He sat on the platform, twiddling his thumbs...
...Russian people are docile. They do not complain about their rulers, far less threaten them. There is no sign of any major purges. I heard a great deal of genuine, voluntary admiration for Stalin, some for Molotov and Zhdanov. But I never heard any Russian volunteer a single word of praise for Lavrenti Beria, head of the omnipresent secret police. But then few people love policemen, and Russians have less reason to love them than most...
Earl Wilson began a column: "I want it understood that I am one newspaperman who knows absolutely nothing about Bugsy Siegel's murder." But he couldn't resist the urge a few paragraphs further to be on the inside too: "Word was passed around about three weeks ago that he was going to get himself into a lot of trouble...