Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When their long, painstaking job was done, the four of them filed a 48,000-word report to O'Neil in New York, who thereupon sat down to write his story. When he had finished it, Researcher Anne Lopatin took over the job of verifying a multitude of facts such as the statement that "Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester"-a statistic which our Boston Bureau proved to its personal astonishment and chagrin...
...Administration, heedful of its labor support in the election, wanted to bar the hated word "injunction" from any labor act. Attorney General Tom Clark had said reassuringly that the President had "inherent" powers to enjoin strikers in a national crisis; it was not necessary to spell out his powers...
Archie Palmer popped into the act. He wanted the jurors polled one by one; the word "guilty" resounded 24 times through the courtroom. He wanted sentence deferred for a month. Two days earlier, in his 130-minute summation, corny Counsel Palmer had invoked St. Matthew ("Judge not, that ye be not judged"), Omar Khayyam ("The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on"), Abraham Lincoln, the golden rule and George Washington Carver. Now he was abusing Shakespeare: "They've got their pound of flesh," he trumpeted. "Do they want the blood with...
...Vice President Barkley added a new word to the language when he told reporters that his family called...
...there also poetically, that is to say, not in their prose function. These poems were conceived with commas, as 'comma poems,' in which the commas are an integral and essential part of the medium: regulating the poem's verbal density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement to become more measured. The method may be compared to Seurat's* architectonic and measured pointillism-where the points of colour are themselves the medium of expression, and therefore functional and valid, as medium of art and as medium...