Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with hatpins. Intellectuals, Easterners and British writers, many of whom have lived happily in its sunshine for decades, snarl at its lack of culture, its brashness, its frenzied architecture. Aldous Huxley called it the "city of Dreadful Joy [where] conversation is unknown." H. L. Mencken handed down a one-word verdict: "Moronia...
From church pulpits throughout Czechoslovakia, Roman Catholic priests last Sunday read a defiant, 4,000-word pastoral letter, delivered to them by couriers sent out from a secret meeting of the country's bishops. They read it despite nocturnal visits from the police, despite the warning of Communist Premier Zapotocky that further "antistate" activity would be met with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times...
...nonLiberal candidate elected was mammoth Mayor Camillien Houde, who ran as an independent.) In the traditional Tory stronghold of Ontario, St. Laurent's well organized campaign helped his party trim down the Tory vote. In the Maritimes and the West, it was the same story. Commentators used the word "tidal wave" as the Liberals ran up a parliamentary majority (132) and far beyond...
...circulation war with the Star, followed the same pattern-cut to Tory cloth. It forgot Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent when, in French-speaking Montreal, he got the best reception of his campaign. When St. Laurent visited Toronto, the Tely's front page carried not a word of his speech. Instead, it ran an interview with a St. Laurent heckler and a picture of him shouting "Phooey...
...urge that course on its members. Undergrounders expect that the revolution will be started in the army, which has been divided by rival factions since the day it booted out Gallegos. At first the schism was confined to garrison commanders who refused to cooperate with the junta. Lately, word has gone around that the division exists within the junta itself...