Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Halfway through the speech, the President got word that the rail strike had been settled-"on the terms proposed by the President...
...bodied, grim-faced men sat in their green-walled hotel suites in Washington and listened as the President rawhided them over the radio. Alexander Fell Whitney's lips were taut, his eyes were on the ceiling. He said not one word. Alvanley Johnston grunted only once, mumbling "Yes, sir," when Harry Truman held himself up as "a friend of labor...
...night of Feb. 7 he disappeared. His wife and two sons sought him frantically, checked police stations, hospitals, the morgue. There was no word. Finally, they gave up looking...
...France, he whispered a pre-arranged code word to one of the ring's French agents, who handed him 120,000 French francs in exchange for the 1,200 Swiss francs "deposited" in Geneva. At the official rate (30 to 1) he would have got only 36,000 French francs. Thus he was 84,000 French francs ahead...
...Funk & Wagnalls and Merriam Webster's International, the official sources (where the dictionaries differed, either spelling would do). Professor Harold F. Harding, the veteran "official pronouncer," threw a fast one at Mary: flaccid. Mary muffed the catch, spelled it phlaxid. John got it right, spelled the next word, too, semaphore, to cinch the national spelling championship...