Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Materialism was the by-word in an informal poll concluded last night to determine what local college girls wanted most for Christmas from their University boy-friends...
...moral position was worse. The court had merely ordered him to postpone-until the legal questions of his coal contract could be adjudicated-an action which would do the country great injury. This was the order he had defied. The order was the first step to an injunction, a word which labor mortally hated and feared. So on the bridgehead of Injunction Horatius took his stand...
...word went out over the radio to the nation's coal miners, who had lost $61.000,000 in wages while standing beside Lewis in the fight. In mid-afternoon of a mild Dec. 7, John Lewis emerged from U.M.W. headquarters and climbed laboriously into his chauffeur-driven Cadillac limousine. Labor leaders rubbed their eyes and stared in the direction of the bridgehead. Horatius had fled...
...President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said no single word in Tiso's behalf...
...picture showed a Town & Country with its snooty tongue tucked in a still unwithered cheek. For its lead article, man-about-town-&-country Editor Henry Adsit Bull ran a 50.000-word T. & C. autobiography that confessed to a few youthful indiscretions: it had brazenly pirated the works of Dickens, Thackeray and their Continental contemporaries (a common crime of the time), even while campaigning for a copyright law that would make such piracy illegal...