Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always considered myself a "Jewess" and always will. This is the first time I've ever heard that it's supposed to be a slur. To me and my friends it is a most acceptable word as long as it is not preceded by the word "dirty...
Brazilians work brilliant designs with figures. It was the Brazilian plan to stabilize the international coffee market that introduced the word "valorization" to the world in 1906. Today, after 40 years of valorizing, bargaining, spoiling land and burning crops, a few coffee merchants and Government officials are comfortably rich -and 90% of the population is as poor as ever. Millions of tons of coffee lie in warehouses. Thousands of acres of coffee land have been abandoned to armies of ants, to small-scale farms, to be worked by the children of slaves, who have so lost their talent for farming...
After the Army purged its most menacing saber-rattlers (TIME, June 24), Paraguayans enjoyed some democratic luxuries. Newspapers spoke out; party politicking was resumed; political exiles returned. But last week word filtered out of Paraguay that the good life did not come easy...
...went all the usual cartoons, quips, verse, chichi shopping notes and critical departments. The entire issue, except for entertainment guides up front, was given over to a 30,000-word doomsday documentary on Hiroshima, by John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey. An editorial box explained that "everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of [the atom bomb...
...make her treat men so naughtily. But even after she has been killed off in an airplane disaster, he never tells the reader what that something was. "She was so b-beautiful," sobs her bereaved maidservant, "and now she's all b-broken up. . . !" Pooh is the word for Chloe Marr...