Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Barkley discovered that he had added a new word to the language. "Darned if it hasn't gone all over the country now," he said. "Every time I pick up a paper I find I'm 'The Veep...
...mouth; he has no small talk. Officers of his staff once maneuvered him into a car with a colonel who was his runner-up for the title of the army's most taciturn officer, and asked the chauffeur to keep track of the conversation. Not a word passed between them on the drive from Rio's Catete Palace to Santos Dumont airport. As the car drove through the airport gate, the colonel muttered: "Chegamos" (We have arrived). Grunted Dutra...
...into the lead. Harvard's 130-pound coxswain, William Leavitt, called a steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open water over runnerup Penn. The time...
...Bellevue Hospital, cancer was detected in 74 out of 75 cases of women found by other tests to have cancer. Of 616 women shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman test cannot give the final word, say its inventors, but is an "adjunct" or helper test for other more complicated methods. It can be made in 25 minutes, may eventually prove useful in detecting cancer in other parts of the body...
Author Dobie's book is saturated with the lore of the range, the brush and the border country. It is the final word on its subject, and very nearly one of those classic studies that seem to sum up everything that has been written before it. A lack of focus weakens it, a discursiveness, and an argumentative mood about the anti-coyote policy in Washington. But at its best, it reads the way oldtimers talk, with a fine earthy mixture of courtesy and superstition, wisdom and independence...