Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organization derives its name from Pope's couplet which begins, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." In Italy, Pieria was considered the home of the muses; sodality, a word now happily out of use, means a religious organization of sorts...
...Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta, were a new political party, the Movimento Unionista Italiano (Italian Unionist Movement). Its emblem was the Stars & Stripes, the Italian flag and a world map. The word spread through the fishing villages, vineyards and olive groves of southern Italy and Sicily, where almost every ragged family has a relative in the U.S. In last month's municipal elections, the Unionists won four local governments, elected a total of 227 aldermen. Last week jubilant Paladino announced that his followers now numbered 875,000 and that his party would run a full slate...
Editor Smith picked up the phone, demanded that the New York Post syndicate tell its new man to rewrite his maiden column. The syndicate said no. Smith canceled his contract, hung up, batted out a front-page manifesto: "It would be impossible to guarantee to print every word that Mr. Ickes might see fit to write...
Last week the United Nations' press section made a modest request: would the papers please take the O out of UNO, which was never christened an "Organization?" Manhattan dailies unanimously agreed to make a short headline word even shorter, although the sensitive Sun protested that UN is "merely a negative grunt . . . not half so pleasing to ear or tongue." Even the UNhospitable Daily News, which wants the outfit to get "com pletely out of the United States" (to northwest Mexico), went along. The press seemed willing to give U.N., at least on little things, every break...
...boss of Mexican baseball, Jorge Pasquel (TIME, March 11), was having his fun too. The brothers Pasquel, aware that U.S. Baseball Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler had not said a vigorous word against them, blithely offered to make him commissioner of Mexican baseball, at the same salary ($50,006 a year). Brother Jorge, a $6,800 diamond watch on his wrist, offered to devote $20,000,000 of his and his four bachelor brothers'* money to give to Mexico top-drawer baseball. So far, he had spent only about one-fortieth of that on getting U.S. players...