Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked Americans to stop, lest they hit survivors or another plane. Those on the glacier had an even greater worry. As planes swooped low to buzz the Dakota, they heard ominous rumbles in the glacier; they feared that engine vibrations were widening the fissures. To warn planes away, the word "FINI" was trudged out in the snow (see cut). Confused observers thought it might be a bad American spelling of a French word (finis) indicating that a) they had given up hope, were "finished"; or b) that they had enough supplies...
Tough Like Hell. The U.S. hoped to rush a helicopter and a crew across the Atlantic in time to be of service; it was ordered back from the Azores when word arrived that Swiss guides, Alpinists and planes had the situation well in hand. Swiss Army Private Marcel Etter, one of a party of 73 who made the tortuous ascent, told a TIME correspondent...
...Paris posters advertising it, the word Putain (Prostitute) was decently blacked...
Roedean last week braced itself for the advent of a new headmistress. In her forties, tweedy Norah Horobin is a "Christian Socialist" and a lady of the likes of the Lawrence sisters. Miss Horobin is strong on discipline, science and sports, and already the word has spread to Roedean that she is "frightfully gamesy...
...From an Arabic word meaning a Mohammedan's long cloth coat...