Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiction book in the country. From the sedate lending libraries of New England to the bustling women's clubs of the West Coast, people are reading and talking about Poet Merton's sensitive, unhappy groping through the litter of modern civilization to find peace at last. Word-of-mouth endorsements are largely responsible for the demand; bookstores are accustomed to coping with those who did not quite catch the title and come in asking for "Seventh Storey Monk" or "Second Storey Mountain." Protestants and Catholics, businessmen and housewives, in 26 weeks since its publication, have zoomed the Mountain...
...list of all subversive organizations (the U.S. Department of Justice's list may be used as a guide) and makes membership in such organizations sufficient grounds for summary removal. The regents are also empowered to dismiss school employees for the "utterance of any treasonable or seditious word ... or the doing of any treasonable or seditious act . . ." regardless of their affiliations...
...swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
Despite all the talk of retrenchment, the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Department of Commerce reported that retrenchment was more a word than an actuality. After a poll of hundreds of U.S. companies, SEC estimated that spending for new plants and equipment this year would be only 4.7% under 1948's record of $19.2 billion...
Characteristic in December. The trouble, as he later explained it, was that he had trusted people too much. "I knew how to say 'no,' but could seldom bring myself to say it. A woman and a politician must say that word often, and mean it-or else." But if he had any regrets Jimmy kept them to himself. Said he: "I have carried youth right up to the fifty-yard mark. I had mine and made the most...