Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madge, Listen . . . But in Manhattan a thousand sharpies got the word "beef" on the grapevine from the 14th Street Market, were thus able to stand in the rain all night, get into the scrimmage and out again with the bacon by noon the next day. You could get a bear roast in Denver if you knew the right party. And all over the U.S. people were eating venison. A lot of old poacher's tricks were as good as ever, although discretion was necessary. An overanxious hunter in Puente, Calif, got arrested last week after he chased a buck...
Upton Close, pompous radiocaster, Anglophobe, labor-baiter, Red-baiter, whose radio punditing deals as often with fancy as with fact; Merwin K. Hart, insurance lawyer, author, lecturer, admirer of Franco's Spain and scorner of the word "democracy," who once declared: "Tougher products result from a Fascist education"; John T. Flynn, writer, vitriolic and acid-tongued spearhead of the prewar, now defunct, America First Committee...
...Hinky Dink kept sober (his wife was a temperance worker), honored his word, and ruled with an iron hand. He made and unmade mayors and chiefs of police. Year after year he used his power brazenly, openly, ruthlessly to squeeze bribes from all who sought municipal favor...
...week's end a placatory 35% wage increase had been granted; the works projects continued. To bolster Premier de Gasperi's Government's sagging morale, word came that the U.S. would send $50 million to reimburse the Italians for lire lent to the U.S. Army...
...major radio speech reporting on the Paris Peace Conference, Byrnes also replied to former Secretary of Commerce Wallace's protest that the United States is pursuing a "get tough with Russia" policy. Neither the word "tough" nor "soft," he said, accurately describes "our earliest efforts to be patient but firm...