Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such maneuvers, the Russians still like Clark, respectfully refer to him as the "American Eagle." When Marshal Konev recently presented him with a bird dog puppy, Clark declared he would name it Ya Soglasen (Russian for "I agree"). Konev wanted to know why. "Because," said Clark, "this is a word I use so seldom otherwise...
...more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past, talks suavely, narrows his eyes when he gets excited, was once a wrestler (220 Ibs.) and is usually described by U.S. correspondents as bullnecked. (Recently he insisted on finding out what the word meant, was furious when...
...Word by word Canada is asserting her atomic independence. Last week Reconstruction Minister Clarence D. Howe told the House of Commons that no one in Canada knows how the U.S. makes atomic bombs. And he did not think Canada would be given the information if she asked for it unless it was thought Canada really needed it. . . . But, he butted: "I have no doubt that, having the . . . explosive material which we make in Canada, our ordnance people could make a bomb of their own. I doubt very much whether they will do it, but that will...
That was true. The good old Spanish word bandido, meaning bandit, is not quite the same thing. Mexicans have imported the word "gangster," unchanged, into their colloquial speech. The Spanish might do the same; but they are more conservative, linguistically, and anyway this hardly seemed a good time...
...country can judge me if I fail," said Perón, as he swore to defend constitutional government. Then he outlined his national program: 1) "unshakable maintenance-firm and intransigent -of our sovereignty"; 2) "social improvement"; 3) a new "dynamic" system of justice. He said no direct word about Argentina's Chapultepec and United Nations promises to toss out his Nazi friends; that he would leave to Congress...