Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate the word of the Year? ATOMIC...
...very useful word is 'KOMING' When lack of data gets benumbing. When a fact is not on tap, KOMING quickly fills the gap. When up against a realistic Need to use a small statistic, Writers keep their KOMING humming...
...this date Chiang Kai-shek and 400,000,000 Chinese will know, for the first time, where they stand; whether in the end it is to be peace or war; reconstruction and reform or reprisal. No one expects the Russians to go back on the letter of their word. It is taken for granted, even among Russophobes, that the Red Army will have withdrawn when the Chinese forces arrive. In Chungking the Government has elected to create the impression that all goes smoothly; the Bear will of course turn over the keys to the Manchurian house. But privately there...
...good many years, Canada's Liberal Government has clucked maternally about the joys of free trade, the selfish shortsightedness of high tariff walls. Last week Canadians discovered that the Government does not always practice what it -preaches. Buried deep in the budget, and bypassed in a 42-word, offhand way by Finance Minister James L. Ilsley in his recent budget speech (not of "major importance," said he), was a new 20% tariff wall-increased from 5%-on seamless-steel boiler tubing...
...word got out at Northfield, Minn, one day last May: the most popular professor on the campus, Laurence McKinley Gould, would be Carleton's new president. The boys broke out red ties, and coeds donned red skirts, for Larry Gould Day. Husky, handsome Larry Gould is famed in little, rich Carleton College for his flaming collection of 150 red ties...