Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word from Moscow. McGohey presented his first witness. He was ex-Communist Louis Budenz, a reformed Red. In most of his previous public appearances, Witness Budenz had destroyed much of his value as an expert on communism by going off half-cocked every time the word was mentioned. But this time Witness Budenz, directed by the prosecution, testified icily and directly...
Security for Zoé? At this heady point a sobering word came from famed Physicist Dr. Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who tends France's atomic pile, known as "Zoe," at Fort de Châtillon. It was "nonsense," he said, to claim Saint-Sylvestre's uranium strike as the world's richest. The Belgian Congo fields were yielding a 50% ore. However, Saint-Sylvestre's pitchblende deposits, though not yet fully explored, were of major importance. They might keep Zoé going without imports...
...first. Every lecture was a performance. Settled in a chair by his desk and crooking his neck around to peer through his one good eye, he seemed to be talking freely and offhandedly. It was hard for his students to realize that he had polished and memorized nearly every word the night before. He never gave exactly the same lecture twice...
...Word at the Forks. A strange unreality lies over the world visualized in these two books. Much of the Overland Trail had been well traveled long before these emigrants started, yet they still had the hardships of pioneers. The Indians were like stage Indians, no longer menacing, but certainly not safe. At the forks in the road there were travelers with word of how much better some other route was or could be, and at the river crossings there always seemed to be someone to overcharge them for ferrying each wagon and each mule...
...retards on cadences were exaggerated, the orchestral part at the end of "Et Resurrexit" was omitted and so was the first Osanna. The soles were taken more slowly than regulation, particularly the bass aria, "Et in Spiritum Sanctum," for it is quite frankly a pastoral dance, inspired by the word "Vivificantem" (Giver of life...