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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just recently returned from my first visit to Scotland and England in seven years. ... I stood in the queues to listen. Of the Americans I heard no word of envy or criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1946 | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...this was the signal for everyone to sit up. Everyone said, "Hi yuh, Jack?" Jack said he was all right except for the burned bald spot and everyone howled and said that was rich. Everyone remembered to call him "Jack." He used to be "Jake" but he had sent word around: "Call me Jack." Jack sat down grinning. Now everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Call Me Jack | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...statement written by some word fellow, which he tried to get somebody else to read. No one else moved, so the mayor read it himself in a grating voice. He had not wanted to take over the chairmanship in the first place. He had only taken it over after Pat Nash died in 1943 because of the great emergency. Now he had decided he didn't have time to be mayor and chairman both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Call Me Jack | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...extremely funny little man. William Mendrek and Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines who can't get telephones either-is Joe Battaglia '25, lisping an occasional word but more often playing a very neat brothel-piano background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

...Association directors agreed that it was worth everyone's effort to keep all costs down and that they would urge all of their members to refrain from profiteering. Even though they could not speak for non-member merchants in the Square, they felt that the use of the word "price-gougers" in Friday's paper carried unjustified implications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prices in Square Edging Up, Investigation Reveals, as Buyers' Strike Gains Momentum | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

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