Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal fear of unification, joined the admirals in insisting on restriction of the Defense Secretary's authority. After 17 months as Defense Secretary, Jim Forrestal saw it all in a clearer light. He asked Congress to kick out the word "general" and let him really...
Ominous Cloud. For six weeks, between Armistice Day and Christmas, representatives of the six signatories had sat in a smoke-filled room in London's Foreign Office, hammering out the agreement clause by clause and word by word. The conference started under an ominous cloud, caused by a decision of the U.S. and British military governors in Germany that ownership of the Ruhr industries should ultimately be handed back to the Germans (TIME, Nov. 29). The decision, embodied in "Law 75," drew violent protests from the apprehensive French. (The question of ownership was not on the agenda...
...three years, merdeka (freedom) was the battle cry, the greeting and the promise of the young Indonesian republic. Strangers saluted each other with the word, children chanted it in the street. Many of the republic's hotels were renamed "Merdeka." But when the Dutch seized Jogjakarta, they took black paint and blotted out the word on the fagade of the hotel in the capital's heart. They have put no other name in its place...
...under the weight of evidence against him [he] made a confession." But, so far, the Communists have not published any confession, with or without his signature. Cardinal Mindszenty, despite the human frailty he knew, was a strong man. Just before his arrest, he had written: "This is now the word of the Sermon on the Mount: 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven...
...Amusement Enterprises, Inc. (Comedian Benny's corporate entity), the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruling meant that the $1,356,000 due Benny from CBS as 60% stockholder was subject to a whopping $1,030,000 in personal income taxes. Until he got the dire word, professional skinflint Benny had hoped (on advice of counsel) that he would have to pay only $300,000 in capital-gains taxes...