Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first round had gone to Lilienthal. From the White House he got a reassuring pat. Said Harry Truman: "I deplore the fact that relatively trivial items have been blown up to proportions that threaten the integrity of the program. It is time people stopped getting hysterical when the word atom is mentioned . . . I have entire confidence in Mr. Lilienthal...
Navy Secretary John Sullivan had quit in a rage. Last week, in a pointedly bitter farewell, he said he was leaving "a Navy that no foreign foe has ever defeated." Nobody in the Pentagon missed the stress on the word "foreign...
...Horizon," Aly and Rita prepared for the day. "I'm so excited," Rita said in one of her rare statements, "I can hardly think. I'm sort of lost in a dream world. When someone asks me a question, I bring myself to and grunt." The word got out that Aly Khan had given her a swell diamond ring, an emerald-cut job. Bar-side reports had it that it was 32 karats-"As big as a belt buckle." (It turned out to be only twelve karats...
...Erato spent her life reading of her son's doings in the newspapers or visiting him in jails. "For nine years I went to different prisons," she says, "taking him food and clean clothes. He likes to be tidy and neat." Now she is denied even that. No word comes to her from Nico himself and only a very occasional note from his Czech wife Mania to tell Erato that all is well with...
Potent Unitarian Bradford, however, was in no mood for such tiptoe tactics. "We must have a central Christian pur pose,", he warned. ";A faith which believes in everything believes in nothing. If Unitarianism is.to be merely a secular debating society, let's take the word 'faith' out of it. I cannot worship the mind...