Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word. Then, from a small voice, he got more definite information: the world would end at exactly 5:33 p.m., Sept. 21. Hastily Long wrote a 70,000-word tract giving the details, sent copies to Stalin, the Pope, Churchill, Harry Truman and governors of the 48 states. (None of them passed the word.) Long decided that the end would come about through atomic dissolution, tried to get on the radio. He wanted to let folks know that ten angels had been assigned the gargantuan task of shooting sinners off to Hell right after the explosion. Station managers refused...
Names on a Rock. Trieste was the other big unsettled issue of the Italian treaty. From Trieste came a story: when the Yugoslav Partisans seized the city they wrote "Tito" across the word "Duce," lettered on a rock overlooking Trieste harbor. After the Yugoslavs withdrew, someone had rubbed out the "Tito," failed to rub out the "Duce...
Henry L Mencken, now 65 ("an obscene age"), but lacking none of his long time gusto for word-slinging, zipped a few to Earl Wilson, "saloon editor" of the New York Post, who relayed some choice Menckenisms. Samples...
Deflation. In the Malay States, where word of the great U.S. synthetic rubber industry presumably had not penetrated Jap censorship, native growers hopefully asked as high as $2 a lb. for their small stocks of natural rubber. With an estimated 20,000 tons of rubber believed stored near Singapore, the growers were stunned last week when British authorities set the price at 36 Malayan cents a lb. (about 17¼? in U.S. currency). At this price the growers were in no hurry to sell the rubber they had furtively hoarded and hidden from the Japs...
Following in the wake of Tuesday's report that undergraduate enrollment at Harvard had sky-rocketed under the influence of the early end of the war to a new high of over 1300, there comes word that the annex to the northwest (called Radcliffe in some quarters) is emulating the Crimson expansion...