Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aver (TIME, Oct. 7) that Wisbech rhymes with fizz peach. Not so. I've been stationed in the neighborhood [Cambridgeshire, England] for several, months, and can authoritatively state that it is pronounced "whiz bitch." What's the matter, do you think bitch is a nasty word...
...Estonians and a Finn who had braved the ocean in three tiny sloops to escape German and Russian oppression (TIME, Oct. 7) got word in Miami last week of their fate. Since they had no visas of any kind, those in the first boatload were told that the gates of the U.S. were shut. The rest could hope for no better. Their alternatives: to go back home or settle in South America...
...political catchword that con compare in ambiguous anonymity with the nebulous, oft praised, oft maligned, but seldom defined character-the American Liberal. At different times and in different countries the term "liberal" has connected almost every conceivable shade of political opinion. But regardless of its etymological history, the word can be properly applied to a definite American political philosophy. Although it has been bandied about with an appalling lack of discrimination, it is, in this year of our Lord, 1946, a satisfactory label for a certain group of Americans who convictions place them somewhat left of center...
What's ahead for business? Said General Electric President Charles E. Wilson last week: "I could give you a record-breaking, one-word answer and retire, trouble...
Clifton R. Wharton '47 left the post after over a year or service, and Andrew R. Baggaley '45 abandoned the programming chores. The incoming officers will assume their new duties today, Goldberg stated, adding a word of "high praise for the competence and loyalty" of the resigning officials...