Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Legion, whose word was once law to the Veterans Administration, last week turned all its fire power on the stubbornly independent new boss. General Omar Nelson Bradley. Off to Congressmen went a bristling indictment of Bradley signed by the Legion's hefty National Commander John Stelle...
...peace was not to be made at a party. This week they came back to the Council forge to hammer out understanding. Vishinsky called Bevin's reference to Communist propaganda "a cold breath of the unhappy past." Bevin used the word "lie." Finally Russia offered to drop her demand for Council action if Britain would withdraw her troops from Greece as soon as possible...
...Labor Ambroise Croizat found "the vital interests ... of an impoverished and anemic France" endangered by the strike. After seven days the strikers went back to work, still smarting at the treatment they received from a Government predominantly composed of professed friends of labor. The printers, however, had the last word. When the Communist Humanité approved Croizat's stand, Parisians had no chance to read the party line. Union printers found two passages offensive, ran big white blanks instead...
Management, for the most part, kept its thoughts to itself. But one business mouthpiece, Toronto's Financial Post, had an approving word: "A real step toward . . . full and mutually responsible partnership of management, labor and capital...
Such is the prestige of the King James Bible that any later translations seem as absurd and outrageous as rewriting Shakespeare. Worse, in fact, for Shakespeare is mere literature, and to many millions of Protestant Americans the Bible is the Word...