Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting in the jammed, floodlighted congressional committee room last summer, he made his enormous, softly worded accusation-that Alger Hiss, a former high State Department official, had also been a Communist. The nation was shocked. Hiss shocked it again. He vehemently denied every accusation and filed a $75,000 libel action against his detractor. Chambers, who thought that his own word as an ex-Communist was enough, produced no more evidence to back his charge...
There was more confusion when the disappointed brigade of newsreel cameramen and reporters arrived at Dodona Manor, the Marshalls' Leesburg, Va. home. The Marshall houseman told them that Madame Chiang had requested two days of privacy. Madame Chiang, however, soon sent word that she would willingly be photographed, came outside to chat and pose...
...Europe. What difference does it make? One close-up answer can be found in the town of Nijverdal (pop. 9,000), set in the peatbog country of eastern Holland. To Nijverdal, the Marshall Plan means cotton. When TIME Correspondent Frank White went to have a look, he found that word of his coming had got to Nijverdal ahead of him. Cabled White last week...
...Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that that is changed." Once a woman asked him why he had never taken a Ph.D. "Who," replied Kitty in all seriousness, "would have examined...
...first part of each class consists of watching the movies, which present reading material from the pages of textbooks in the form of isolated word groups. The word groups flit across the person at a steadily increasing pace as the course progresses. After the film, students answer questions about the reading material they have just soon. In part two of the class they read passages from an ordinary book within a certain time limit and then again answer questions about what they have read. The third part of the course is devoted to teaching studying skills: skimming, anticipating, and notemaking...