Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrine of one hardy expert on the burning word, the President had not been daring at all, but unforgivably commonplace and unimaginative. In The American Language, H. L. Mencken complained: "Our maid-of-all-work in [the profanity] department is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudge does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah . . . Put the second person pronoun and the adjective old in front of it and scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon...
Georgia's legislature snuffled and snapped through its appointed rounds. It really sat up when the word was passed that "Hummon wants this." In just 41 of the 70 days allotted to it, the state's complacent assembly gave crafty, cocky Governor Herman Eugene Talmadge almost everything he wanted. Grumped an editorialist last week in the Hummon-hating Atlanta Journal: "Thank Heaven, I still have my liver and lights." The Atlanta Constitution, somewhat friendlier to Hummon, drew a deep breath and said: "On the whole the legislature did a good...
...mote in Johnny Dunn's sighting eye was Anthony Hintz, the hiring boss on Pier 51 at the Hudson River foot of Manhattan's Jane Street. Andy Hintz wouldn't play ball with the hoods and their following of thieves and payroll paddies. He sent up word to Johnny that he could go to hell, and so he was marked for killing...
...Cockeye, Squint and Gentile were convicted of the murder a year later. For months, they sat in the death house at Sing Sing while their lawyers battled up to New York's highest court. Then Squint Sheridan sent down word that he was ready to sing. Dunn and Gentile, he swore, had had nothing to do with the killing; he alone had planned it. It had been carried out by two men, but one of them was dead now and the other was not to be found...
...Social science contributes much to answer these problems, Dean Muelder said in explaining how science can enable man to reach moral judgments. He commended its work in studying how men can live better together and added that "the last word is not yet in from social science...