Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cousin Humphrey italicized the word "now." As he went about Washington last week, stressing the importance of U.S. support for China, Cousin George was italicizing the same word...
...master, you don't have to emphasize it." It was a remarkable show of bravado; it was also a telling demonstration of the Nazis' inability to deal with the world on any but their own amoral terms. Goring dramatically concluded his 55,000-word oration with a misquotation from Churchill: "In the struggle for life and death there is no legality...
...arrest of an M.P. was not the only dose of wormwood for Canadians. In a crisp, 4,000-word report, the Government ticked off the identities of four other persons accused of giving secrets to the Russians: 1) Dr. Raymond Boyer, a McGill University chemistry professor who had worked on a super-explosive known as "R.D.X."; 2) Harold Samuel Gerson, a scientist who worked for the Department of Munitions & Supply; 3) R.C.A.F. Squadron Leader Matt Simons Nightingale; 4) Dr. David Shugar, who worked on anti-submarine devices while in the Canadian Navy. Five other "detainees" were still to be identified...
...King's College, had given the G.I. College its name. Noting that most of the G.I.s had been quartered in the famed old Bull Hotel, because Cambridge's colleges were overcrowded he told the students and U.S. Army Major George Dewey Blank, their boss: "As the word 'Hotel' sounds so very undignified, I just call you simply 'Bull College.' And you, Major Blank, I refer to as the 'Big Bull...
...passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested as an alternative that I substitute a Greek whore, Greece, I presume, not being considered neutral and therefore capable of being offended without danger...