Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn it on the Communists who conceived and executed the campaign. But that, in turn, lays the Government open to charges of political reprisal for political purposes-a dangerous position to take in this country where fair play is still precious. We know that the Cabinet meant every word when it threatened to bring conspiracy charges against Communist leaders of all ranks, but it is still highly nervous about the possible results of such a move...
Minister of the Interior Victor Román y Reyes had passed the word to innumerable Somoza relatives in important Government posts, and the tight machine that combined local military and civil governorships in one henchman's hands executed the dictator's orders as smoothly as ever. It was still Somozaland...
Ever since the discovery of anesthesia, men have been trying to defy God's word to Eve. In 1941, Drs. Robert Hingson and Waldo Edwards of the U.S. Public Health Service started experimenting with continuous caudal analgesia-slow injection of a pain-killing drug into the nerve canal at the base of the spine-during labor. Among their first subjects: Coast-guardsmen's wives at Staten Island's Stapleton Marine Hospital...
...exploring the complicated structure of chlorophyll and in helping develop nuclear fission. He has the great capacity for growth that is the essence of the educated man. And his own breadth of intellectual interest is the essence of 310-year-old Harvard, whose motto is the single Latin word Veritas (Truth...
...very much a part of the community. In Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind a scholar's activities should have relevance to the immediate future of our civilization...