Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While her husband's status was still indefinite, Ruth maintained a dignified silence. Explained one elder tribal statesman who had paid a call: "The queen will not speak to us yet. We are waiting for her command. But word has come to us that she is delighted with her new country...
...What kind of news are they getting? To find out, a special committee of the National Association of Radio News Directors took a one week look at the four news associations (Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing." Some press associations "use their radio circuits to break in green...
...Josip Broz Tito thought that Joseph Stalin had reached the top of his voice, he had heard nothing yet. Last week, amplifying earlier charges that Yugoslavia was mistreating Russian nationals residing in Yugoslavia, Moscow loosed a 3,000-word blast against Tito that was enough to make the marshal's formidable wolfhounds dive whimpering under the nearest...
...every country who have arrogated to themselves all the most important political prerogatives, economic resources and cultural opportunities." The leaders have little contact with one another and Communism as a movement has little influence-"though among the native peoples there is a vague appeal in the use of the word as a symbol of racial equality...
...stops, each group got the appropriate tea or cocktails, a recorded greeting from DeMille and a 40-minute spiel from husky, suave Henry Wilcoxon. The actor, who plays a military governor in the film and goes on drawing his $1,000 weekly salary while spreading the good word, promised them that the picture would offer not merely entertainment, but education, inspiration, food for thought-in short, just about everything but salvation. ("...A story of love and lust, brutality and kindness, despair and hope, strength and weakness...