Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years as U.S. Army executioner has hanged 347 people. Said he afterwards: "I hanged those ten Nazis . . . and I am proud of it. ... I wasn't nervous. . . . A fellow can't afford to have nerves in this business. . . . I want to put in a good word for those G.I.s who helped me . . . they all did swell. . . . I am trying to get [them] a promotion. . . . The way I look at this hanging job, somebody has to do it. I got into it kind of by accident, years ago in the States...
...Santa Rosa, has had Our Lord of Miracles since October 1746, when an earthquake destroyed Lima. Only one wall, the wall of a little church in the city's poorest quarter, was left standing, and on it was a painting of the Christ, made by a nameless mulatto. Word of the miraculous preservation swept the ruins, and masses of people crowding around the wall started the first procession. As the procession advanced-so legend says-the earth stopped quaking...
expected to know his place." Pursued Romains (in Town & Country): "He is granted the right to hold an opinion on writing; he may even be allowed a word upon success in general, figuring in a magazine symposium alongside a stockbroker, an advertising man, and a manufacturer of elastic girdles. But his credit stops there...
...year ago, Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger began a quiet campaign to get rid of some of the Times's greyness. He sent word to the staff that their rambling stories should be crispened, their tortuous sentences shortened...
...jumping the official gun in announcing the Nazis' surrender, A.P. Correspondent Ed Kennedy had been a one-day hero-and in the doghouse ever since. A.P. Boss Kent Cooper decided that Kennedy had broken his word by breaking the news (TIME...