Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat rebuttal of Johnson's own statement a fortnight ago, Sullivan accused Johnson of ramming through the carrier decision without a word to the Navy Department. Yet, said Sullivan, the carrier had twice been approved by the President, and specifically authorized by Congress. Furthermore it had been so important to the Navy that other construction funds had twice been reduced to make the carrier possible. As Sullivan saw it, the whole deal was a barefaced double-cross...
...There is no finer spectacle," wrote Potter, "than the sight of the good Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look a fool in his own subject, or at any rate interrupting him in that stupefying flow, breaking that deadly one upness of the man who, say, has really been to Russia, has genuinely taken a course in psychiatry, or has written a book on something...
...word can describe the Light Blue's baseball fortunes so far this spring, it is "erratic." The Lions started off with a loss to Princeton and then snapped back with a win over Cornell, supposedly one of the EIBL powers. This game was followed by a loss to Brown, and then victory over highly-regarded Penn...
Reynolds said "he had not yet reached a definite decision" on board charges, and though no final word will be handed down on this for several weeks, he said that he "did not expect to have to make any further adjustments...
...past couple of years, O. John Rogge has been spending most of his time defending people before loyalty boards, House committees, and also before juries. "Defending" is Rogge's word for it, for he spends the greater part of 'Our Vanishing Civil Liberties' "attacking the fiction that the House Committee (or other government bodies) 'investigates' when its only function is to smear, condemn, and sabotage the legal activities of progressive Americans...