Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attorney, and an unknown. Throughout most of the trial his conduct had been pedestrian and plodding. Now, in his summation, he surprised everyone. He marshaled his facts impressively. He matched sarcasm with Stryker, and outdid him. When he was through, the issue was no longer Hiss's word against Chambers'; it was Hiss's word against an impressive structure of evidence...
...Word to the Foreman. Then Murphy took up the defense's explanation of where the Hiss typewriter was at the time the confidential documents were typed...
Delegations from Belgium drop in to see him quite often. Word reached Brussels last week that the King was telling callers he now felt dubious about a plebiscite on his return. It might divide his people, politically and geographically, by deepening the division between Flemings (who tend to support the King) and Walloons (who distrust his alleged pro-Flemish sympathies). Leopold, said one report, favored a solution that would allow him to return to Brussels with honor vindicated and constitution upheld, then abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin...
...months, she wrote petitions to the authorities asking for an investigation-or at least for some word about where her husband was buried. Finally, she wrote a long letter to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. "No one will answer me," wrote Lena Tobiansky, "therefore I have turned to you . . . My husband and I were married 15 years . . . We Jived happily and closely together . . . There could have been no secrets between us . . . I am suffering, despised and ignored...
...assured his audience that "the work done here may prove a thousand times more valuable to humanity than all the oil in Oklahoma," Fleming could hear the thudding accompaniment of a pumping well on nearby state land. Researcher Fleming had a word for the foundation's governors. It was up to them, he said, "to create the free atmosphere which will allow genius full play . . . Much in the future of humanity depends on the freedom of the researcher to pursue his own line of thought. Fundamental research thrives on free enterprise, and wilts and withers under too many controls...