Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue-Ribbon Conviction. One day in 1938, Campbell got word to look in at District Attorney Dewey's office. He did. Three hours later he was in the Tombs, accused of a $4,160 forgery. In a few speedy weeks he had a speedy trial. Four witnesses from banks positively identified him as the check passer. The hand-picked "blue-ribbon" jury saw its duty and did it. It was only because Bertram Campbell had never been arrested for anything before that the judge gave him the minimum sentence-five to ten years...
...This word war had to be waged carefully and cannily, lest the U.S. seem too eager and thus persuade the Japs that they could get better terms by holding out longer. The Japs did their best to convince the U.S. that only soft words would work. Before the Potsdam declaration came out (see INTERNATIONAL) a Tokyo broadcaster blandly counseled the U.S. to watch its words, quoted an old fable: the gentle sun could make a man take off his overcoat more quickly than the strong wind. At Potsdam the U.S. and her Pacific ally, Britain, settled for a strong...
Mindful of Germany's prodigious efforts to go underground, airmen could not entirely dismiss the possibility. But they had the last word: the bombs fell & fell, the invasion armies made ready. Whenever it pleased, the Navy could again train its guns on the Jap homeland. The war of words did not, for one moment, interrupt or slacken the fighting...
...Superdumbo, assigned to keep radio and visual watch for airmen going down, spotted three life rafts in the water. Already in contact with a submarine, the Superdumbo passed the word. But two Jap picket boats headed for the life rafts. The Superdumbo dropped four bombs which missed. Another Superdumbo showed up with two PB4Y (Liberator) Dumbos. They strafed and sank the Japanese craft, then guided the submarine to the survivors...
...Chicago. But Larry MacPhail, who excludes the word "impossible" from his bulging vocabulary, had already decided to shake up his slumping club. Last week, neatly finessing waiver difficulties, he sold high-paid ($17,500 a year) Pitcher Hank Borowy (won 10, lost 5) to the National League-leading Chicago Cubs...