Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Agitated party leaders Lord Woolton and Anthony Eden scurried to Keynoter Winston Churchill in his cerise-&-cream, modernistic suite. After hours of discussion, morning found cigar-smoking Churchill sitting up in bed, dictating a new and more soothing speech in 500-word blocks to two secretaries in relays.* That afternoon, while 4,000 people jammed every balcony and corridor, Senior Oracle Winston Churchill gave the young rebels a few answers, then cannily diverted their attention to subjects on which they could happily agree. Clutching his coat lapel with one hand and stabbing the air with the other, he strode into...
...usual, the little Father needed to be translated. He meant his spiritual body, not his own plump, proper person. And in Divine lingo, spiritual body included the 2,000 white "angels" who live in Swiss "heavens" and believe Father's word that...
Tucked into the Journal's 16,000-word chronicle of medicine-show journalism were many carefully chosen glimpses of the Chief. But none showed him as his early opposition had seen him (see cut). There was his election to Congress in 1903 (but, naturally, no mention of his ill-fated tries for the presidency, the New York mayoralty and governorship). There was his imperial decree...
Faced with these cold facts, money-losing corporations, which had kept payrolls fat in hopes that peak production would pull them out of the red, now began to think about trimming. After the stockmarket crash, Wall Streeters had predicted that many a businessman would start using the ugly word "retrenchment" instead of expansion. Last week, in one of the country's key industries, at least, it looked as if the retrenchment had started...
Front-line lieutenants of the advancing buttons proudly manipulated some 3,000 machines, the last word in gadgets to count, add, substract, multiply, divide, duplicate (or do all six at once), type in any of 51 languages, stamp and address envelopes, open letters, translate, record, broadcast on private networks, and, finally, erase spotlessly and indefatigably. Showstoppers...