Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is a poor return for the amount of information about the U.S. disclosed daily in its free press, but it means even less to the average Russian reader. In general, he may doubt the word of his lesser newspapers, but when Pravda or Tass (the news agency) speaks, he feels that he is listening to the voice of his Government and is inclined to believe. There are exceptions, of course. I once asked a Russian acquaintance what he thought about a Tass account of a U.S. Negro youth congress which condemned lynchings and the activities of certain U.S. Senators...
Such was the word from the manager of New London's gray and gaudy Griswold House, long synonymous with the revelry that goes with Yale-Harvard regattas, on the eve of the first post-war showing of this great sporting spectacle...
...encouraged to begin beating the bushes. Some of the odd game he flushed: a healer named Percival Lemon Clark, who attacked all diseases with a "sanatology blower" that was supposed to "dry clean the entire [internal] system"; a California dentist who called himself Painless Parker (use of the word "painless" was forbidden by law); a jack of all diseases named John Paul Fernel, who designed a "sleeping brassiere," for reducing oversized busts...
...this pattern of success, President "Pop" Shapiro had a seven-word formula neatly printed on a small sign on his oak-stained desk: "Fools invent fashions-wise men follow them...
American historians often refer to 1816 as the "era of good feeling," with reference to President Monroe's bipartisan election. Harvard chronicles of that year substitute the word "numb," more frequently when the thermometer on August 29 registered 37 degrees...