Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operetta-goers, the word for the Balkans had been "romantic'': in Marsovia, the Merry Widow's imaginary country, the people waltzed in boots and dainty slippers, drank plum brandy and intrigued their way through ballrooms and bedrooms. To diplomats, the word had been "obscure": ephemeral dynasties, parvenu politicians and illiterate courtesans played at running governments. To newspaper readers, the word was "confusing": barely pronounceable, barely distinguishable lands constantly seemed to be staging wars, revolutions and political assassinations for reasons too involved for correspondents to explain...
Winston Churchill, detecting a small flaw in a London comedy, dropped around backstage to pass the word. In subsequent performances, when the British trucks rounded a corner they sounded their horns...
Russia's No. 1 Propagandist-journalist, slight, greying Ilya Ehrenburg, had spent two months in the U.S., encouraged to look where he liked. Last week, for the United Press, he wrote a 1,700-word bread & butter letter, full of praise for America's splendid highways and damnation for U.S. newspapers. Obviously, if this great country was not getting along with his great country, the fault was America's Excerpts...
...Phillies had begun the season like their stumblebum predecessors by losing 24 times in 32 games. Their new manager, onetime Yankee Ben Chapman, tried everything: he forbade any player even to mention the word cellar, fired three veterans on the team who couldn't shake off that old Philly feeling. His toughest self-assignment: patting pitchers on the back when they got knocked out of the box. Ben Chapman himself had changed since he got kicked out of organized baseball for a year three years ago for slugging an umpire...
...start living. At seven, more than five years after illness destroyed her vision and hearing, she felt a doll being thrust into her hands by a new friend. Writes Helen: "When I had played with [the doll] a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play. . . . I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed...