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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word "secretly" might give rise to the inference that I acted without the knowledge of my clients . . . It was with the full knowledge and unqualified approval of Mr. Hiss that I brought these papers to the attention of the Department of Justice, after first having notified counsel for Mr. Chambers of my intention to do so and after having obtained the approval of Judge Chesnut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...chapel, Hirota heard the cries. "What is that?" he asked. "Manzai?" (Manzai is the word for "comedy.") "Ah, banzai; I understand. Let us do it, too." The banzais of the three echoed out to the four in the courtyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Seven Old Men | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Dollars for Planes. Last week a mission* returned to Ottawa with word that Canada could make North American's F-86 jet fighter. Also in prospect was a license on a U.S. transport (perhaps Fairchild's C-82) to be built in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Common Cause | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Thousand Days (TIME, Dec. 20) set critics to reaching for their superlatives, Anderson was not mollified. With fellow members of the Playwrights' Company and Co-Producer Leland Hayward, Anderson decided to put the critics in their place by not taking any display ads nor quoting a word of their praise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Yule Log-Rolling | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...there is no mistaking it-the voice of David Herbert Lawrence (died 1930), come back like an indignant ghost to nag the torpid flesh of Anglo-Saxons. It is not a pleasant voice: few of D. H. Lawrence's letters to his "friends" (victims would be a better word) show the genius that illuminated his fiction and poetry. It is a hectoring, querulous, spiteful voice, polite when it fears that it has aroused anger; but, once reassured by the listener's forgiveness, instantly rude and bullying again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear Bertie | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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