Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whatever cost. He had ordered John Steelman, his "labor adviser" and Lewis' solicitous friend, to stand in the corner. The President conferred principally with young Clark Clifford, his special counsel, who seconded Mr. Truman's assertion that now was the time to stand firm. That was the word Clifford passed along to Interior Secretary Julius Krug and Attorney General Tom Clark...
...G.O.P. small fry gulped with amazement when the word was passed down. Huge (6 ft. 2½in., 220 Ibs.), bear-like Russell Root's greatest claim to political fame was a vague resemblance to Wendell Willkie. In his 48 years he had never held a political job above ward committeeman until he was lifted into the Cook County G.O.P. chairmanship last spring. Even he admitted that last month's Republican sweep was due more to a vote against the "ins" than to his own ability...
After dinner on Thanksgiving Day a year ago, Jimmy Byrnes sat alone in his Washington office, abysmally gloomy. The world had peace, but the word sounded like a bad joke. The London meeting of the Foreign Ministers had failed; not even the beginning of a peace treaty was in sight; there were even fears that Russia would not attend the first U.N. Assembly in London...
...British intelligence sources also got word of the Assembly's approach, and three British destroyers spoiled the Jewish plan. They spotted the Jewish Assembly, blinked an order for it to proceed to Cyprus. The Assembly's answer flashed back: "No, we have come from the concentration camps of Europe. This is not a pleasure cruise." A British destroyer captain pleaded: yield, avoid bloodshed. "Never, captain, never," was the reply. "As your own leader said we say: 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the streets.' We shall fight on this ship...
Whatever it may have thought of the guilt of Kesselring or Kappler (soon to be tried themselves), the court sentenced Mackensen and Maeltzer to death by firing squad. For once the courtroom was almost quiet, but from the back, where the widows were gathered, gratefully came one word: "Grazie...