Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the game was two minutes old, he was on his feet, claiming that the opposition had fouled, bellowing to one of his own boys that he'd be "sold to Louisville" (banished to the bench). He kept repeating one word-"faster"-to a team that was already whizzing past Maine. Maine tumbled, 99-66, and Rhode Island's remarkable scoring record rose to a dizzy 96.4 per game. Before the week was out, Connecticut became victim No. 8, by a score...
...Gasperi and Turkey's Yalman) did so with difficulty. Padilla explained his linguistic temerity in a characteristic introduction: "Many years ago I arrived at Paris, and I met and had a very nice friendship with a girl from Hungary. She did not at that time speak a word of Spanish or French, and I did not speak a word of Hungarian or French. We improvised and we found very soon that we were very happy: nobody understood us and we could not make ourselves understood. I am now creating a special dialect of Spanish-English, and hold this...
Welles refused to agree that "intervention" should be classified as a mere "fetish word." Referring to Larreta's attempt to force out Argentina's Peron by Pan-American action, Welles applauded the objective, but added...
...must . . . ask ourselves if [the] Germans themselves are any different from their predecessors. I have read . . . with the hope of not being disappointed, the most important statements of the chiefs of all political parties constituted or reconstituted on Germanic territory. I have not found in them a single word of individual or collective remorse...
...Norteamericanos-decide what the volunteers will do and how they will do it. Their activities are bossed by Mexicans and carried out by Mexican methods, however old-fashioned they may seem by U.S. standards. As in all Friends Service Committee undertakings, religion is manifested in deed rather than word...