Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inaugural Ball he lin gered far past midnight, watching from his box as all official Washington danced on the floor below or crowded up for a word...
...Policy? Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia was known to have come back from Europe and the U.S. with the word that Argentina's economic policy, which had about wrecked the nation's foreign trade, was too inflexible. And it was a fact that the men who would henceforth manage the Bank and IAPI had served under Bramuglia the greater part of their political lives, Ares as economic chief in the Foreign Office, Morales as Bramuglia's assistant at Bogota' and Paris. If their appointments meant anything, they foreshadowed a break from Miranda's rigid selling policies...
...dropped from a show. But unlike most composers and authors, he refuses to lower his own high royalty rate (5% of gross receipts) when a show has begun to slump at the box office. A song generally takes shape in his head before he plays it or puts a word on paper, and a glazed look of creation may come over his face at any time of day or night-and at any place on earth...
...first, his students understood no English and he could speak not a word of Trukese. For three weeks, teacher and pupils on the onetime Japanese island fortress of Truk groped for a way to talk to each other. Then one day a little girl blurted: "Teacher should not smoke-it does damage in the head." That was the first sign Navy Lieut. William H. O'Brian had that he was getting anywhere with his assignment...
...Allen, as usual, had the last word. Explaining the involved mysteries of Hooperatings to his (according to Hooper) diminishing audience, Allen said: "[Hooper] calls up a few people . . . and tells you how many listeners you have in the whole 48 states. It's like multiplying the bottom of a bird cage and telling you how many grains of sand there are in the Sahara Desert...