Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best they could think of was to send word around the wards and back rooms: don't give up hope. In spite of Harry Truman's firm stand against decontrol, they hoped there would be some meat to nourish voters for that journey to the polls...
...Mexico. Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez made enemies when he beat Governor John Dempsey's machine in the primary. Now state jobholders have been given the word to "vote as you please," and many consider that a green light to vote for hurly-burly Major General Patrick Jay Hurley. He has a good chance in a closening race...
...Bomb) had become Bonne Chance; Offensivgeist (The Spirit of the Offensive) had become Olymp, but Munich's bettors, who poured more than a million marks a day into the tote windows, could still catch a glimpse of the Bavarian aristocracy strolling in the paddock, dressed in the last word in Paris (1941) fashions...
Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston created a little stir of his own in the world of couture. Confided the Mayor to a visitor: on his back was a splendid tattoo of a schooner in full sail. The word spread like wildfire. The press clamored for a look. Then the Mayor, who is still under sentence for using the mails to defraud, became unapproachable. Boston wondered...
H.M.S. Flame, 18-gun brig, lies hove to near the French coast. "Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs," splutters the First Lord of the Admiralty, nursing his gout in Whitehall. Flame's crew have just sent word to London that they are tired of floggings and bad food. Unless their demands are met, they will desert to Napoleon...