Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Lewis had no need for further comment. The word had already gone out. To U.S. coal miners, he was plainly proclaiming that the coal industry had declared war on widows, orphans, and the lame, halt and blind, and that a strike was in order. As John L. had prophesied, the halt in royalty payments had caused "reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry...
Newsmen in Portland, Ore., who wanted the word from the sheriff's office did not call on big, tousle-haired Sheriff Mike Elliott to get it. Not that the sheriff might not see them at the courthouse if he was in a benign mood-it was just that he usually did nothing but snort: "Why do you guys keep calling me a politician? I'm a statesman. A statesman is for the people!" His news releases, however, could be obtained by going to Brownie's U-Drive and asking for Richard ("Brownie") Brown...
...word was relayed through the drive-ins, malt shops and garages speckling the Los Angeles suburbs. "Tonight, Sepulveda and Hawthorne." By 10 p.m., 100 hopped-up jalopies and denuded, low-slung hot rods had gathered at a mile-and-a-half stretch of straight highway between suburban Torrance and Redondo Beach...
Since then, no word of Molotov's current activities has appeared in the Soviet press. For all anyone in the West knows, he could be dead or he could be running Russia. Shrewder guesses: 1) he has been put in charge of the Communists in China and the prospering campaign to take over Southeast Asia; 2) he has been put in charge of the vendetta against Tito...
...Mute Wife. Even with Soulima's new-music, the new version was just middling. He had had less than two hours to rehearse the ballet orchestra, a part pickup outfit seldom two rungs better than a good firemen's band. And about the most charitable word the critics could find for the Ballet Russe's ragged performances was "drab." Yet, it was evidence that the son of a famous father, after only a year in the U.S., was making...