Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME is well aware that Bishop Sheil's position is both progressive and Christian, respectfully points out that it used and will use "radical" as a good old word with a good old sense: "original; fundamental . . . reaching to the center or ultimate source" (Webster...
...INTERNATIONAL), and fumbled for analogies between the world's ills today and those of the Union 81 years ago. Thoughtfully he read the inscription on the peace monument: "Peace eternal in a nation united." Solemnly he said: "That is what we want. But let's change that word [nation] to 'world.' Then you'd really have something...
Last week, while both sides were putting their cases to C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray, Morris Muster went off fishing. His parting word: "I'm singing a song of warning. ... I hope my little sacrifice will be a bellwether move...
...Scotch to be had. "I thought Americans always had ice and Scotch," muttered a few disgruntled Britons, but for others the plebeian spirits did well enough. A few drunks were soon reeling here & there. The dignified staggers of U.S. junior officers drew many a disparaging glance and word from moralizing chauffeurs clustered at the entrance. Only the waiters and bartenders seemed unhappy. As the afternoon wore on they grew progressively ruder, slopping fresh drinks into dirty glasses and brushing away all complaints...
Wrote O'Donnell: "The request . . . has been conveyed to each [justice] by word of mouth. . . . Frankfurter got the bad news directly across the White House desk from Truman." The denials came fast and hard. Said White House Press Secretary Charles Ross: "The most cockeyed thing I ever heard of." O'Donnell's story, he said, was "false in every particular. . . . Truman has not seen or talked to Frankfurter since he became President. . . . Frankfurter has never been in the White House since Truman became President...