Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unemployed; that reconversion is 90% complete in many parts of the country; that payrolls and individual earnings are only slightly below the wartime peak (see BUSINESS). The nation was stuffed with yeasty potential. Vogue welcomed nylons back as "a symbol [of] the pleasures of peace, distilled into one wishful word...
...hyper-sophisticated followers of bedroom comedy, this homely little story of a Connecticut-conscious New York family will hold only a few widely scattered delights: there is not much of the subtle word-play and tittilating sex undercurrent that were good for so may laughs in the comparable "Man Who Came to Dinner...
Speaking of Philadelphia's presentation, the article states merely: "Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver." The word "tout" has definitely a cheap and unpleasant significance. If I correctly understand the common meaning of that word, there was no touting by any member of the Philadelphia delegation...
...poll by the U.S. Army's Information and Education Division showed that few G.I.s in Germany were spending much time hating their former enemies. Some 34% of the newly arrived occupiers had a good word for the "Krauts"; 59% of those who had been there two months or longer thought they were O.K. When asked whom they liked best-Britons, Frenchmen or Germans-about half voted for the British, only 16% for the French; 23% favored the Germans. They found the Germans clean, friendly, and generally "like...
Only with the war did the average German begin to hear of this wraith. He replaced Hess as Deputy Führer; his signature was required on all laws. He slithered about, watching generals and party leaders at work, and a disapproving word from him could mean death. Next to Hitler and Himmler, he was the most powerful man in all Germany...