Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Redin waited more than 20 hours. Then came the word: the jury was ready with a verdict. They filed into the box, their faces expressionless, their manner grave. The verdict: Not Guilty...
...turned against Labor. Bread-rationing riots in Ulster last week were extreme symptoms of the dissatisfaction. Men were generally more patient, but they railed against the shortage of beer. Thirsty Britons organized and sent bicycle scouts into the countryside in search of still wet pubs; whenever one was found, word went back by carrier pigeons to friends who sped to the scene...
...sailed 2,000 miles across the lonesome stretches of the South Pacific in a canoe. Nabetari's feat, unequaled in the lore of oceanic survival, has been officially confirmed. The story that follows is a simple English version prepared for translation into Gilbertese, which has only a 400-word vocabulary...
...expected to continue coming from his typewriter. Writing on the Apostles' Creed, he claims it is a present day anachronism composed expressly to combat the medieval Gnostic heresy that the world was not created by God, but by a lesser, coarser deity, and that Christ, the Incarnate Word, did not truly live, suffer and die like a man, but only seemed to do so. He calls it a "Bill of Spiritual Rights, claiming for man the privilege of . . . establishing firsthand acquaintance with Deity in the person of an intimate, ever present God, and a genuine unpretending Christ...
Confessional Clichés. As a running news story, it was short on facts. Fingerprints seemed to tie 17-year-old Collegian William George Heirens to the brutal Suzanne Degnan murder, perhaps to a couple of others. When word got around that he had talked (after an injection of sodium pentothal), headline writers" decided it was a confession, dusted off their favorite cliches about "truth serums...