Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the reading of his 20,000-word statement, he went off to rest. He returned to sit for an hour, an overcoat around his shoulders, while Senators asked questions...
...unto me as good as your word...
Eleven weeks after war-weary U.S. marines, sailors, airmen whooped into liberated Shanghai, TIME Correspondent John Walker cabled a word portrait of China's great port...
...girl with the sniffles was a clear case of psychosomatics. The vogue of psychosomatic (mind and body) medicine is so new that the word is in only the newest medical dictionaries. But good doctors have always known that the mind can cause aches & pains, can even be a major factor in diseases, including infections. Dr. Leland Hinsie, Columbia professor of psychiatry, has written a little book, The Person in the Body (W. W. Norton; $2.75), which gives many examples of the tricks the mind can play on the body...
...days of the late Sidney Smith had a modest resemblance to middle-class U.S. life, has little now. Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie, never any too real or too funny, has sunk so deep into moldy homiletics that it is now trying to make Tory a nice word by proving that only rabble revolted in 1776. Fantasy, outside of Crockett Johnson's Barnaby and Al Capp's Li'l Abner, is so fouled up in gamma rays, cloaks of invisibility, space ships, and brutal omnipotence, that it has little time for fantasy's ancient...