Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Words & Deeds. The prelude to George Messersmith's Argentine mission is as long and weird as any chapter in U.S. foreign relations. In the cloistered halls of the U.S. State Department, the word "policy" has two meanings. To one group of men "policy" means something you say; to another it means something...
...York's Communist Russian-language newspaper, Russky Golos, last week told volumes in one word. It was praising Lincoln's Gettysburg address, especially the "immortal thoughts" which it rendered "government of the people, from the people, and for the people...
...Russian word for "from" is iz, which can hardly be a misprint for chrez posredstvo, which is how the Russians would translate Lincoln...
...TIME reporter-Singh: "Who're you?" Uno: "Oh, I'm Uno." Singh: "Do you have to use many languages out there?" Uno: "Oh, I get along on me Irish.") Then who should stalk in but austere U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles. He whispered a discreet, wholly unofficial word in Singh's ear. Sir Maharaj called off the show...
Aside from the usual run of Soviet propaganda, nothing newsworthy happened except the discovery, by Molotov's translator, Vladimir N. ("Pinky") Pavlov, of a word the Russians seem to have been groping for. In a meeting of the Big Four to consider restrictions on the veto, the word "majorization" was born. "Majorization," as the Western diplomats get it, is the deplorable tendency to reach international decisions by majority vote. Molotov preferred a businesslike approach, which would please the minority as well as the majority. So did everyone else, but little progress on how to achieve that goal with...