Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Tom Connolly, fancy-dressing, fancy-swearing Democrat from Texas, uttered a prosaic "damn" on the Senate floor, got tutted by Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, ex-undertaker, who considered the word "beneath the dignity of the Senate." Connally promptly withdrew the word ("I know my colleagues are delicate"), swore he was just quoting somebody else, and thus "it wasn't my word...
...book. Cartoonist George Baker's crude, snafued Sad Sack, who had been syndicated to 60 civilian newspapers, was about to become a civilian himself. Some of the Yanks and their neighbors on the daily Stars & Stripes were getting together on a new magazine, to be named Salute-a word presumably unpleasing to a G.I. ear. Among the Saluters: Cartoonist Bill ("Up Front") Mauldin, New Yorker Staffman Walter Bernstein, Playwright Irwin Shaw...
...Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture of human beings-white and colored-trapped by the whole mechanism of segregation. I broke a great many rules but I knew what rules I was breaking . . . I'm proud of it ... I wouldn't change a word...
Cheaper Talk. At a Bermuda conference, the U.S. and the British Empire (which control 81% of the world's cables) agreed to new low rates. Starting April 1, rates will drop to 30? a word for fast cables, 15? for deferred and 10? for night. Under some present rates,* this is a whopping cut. New York-London rates, under an agreed 20? ceiling, were not affected...
...Examples: New York to South Africa, 50? a word; to Somaliland, 83?; to Australia, 60?; to Singapore...