Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word goes round that the league is loaded this winter and the word is right. House basketball, by all portents and by the opinions of athletic secretaries and players, should be faster, finer, and loss soggy than ever before...
...word Satyagraha is Sanskrit in origin-a combination of satya (truth) and agraha (insistence). Gandhi's passion for truth was evident from the beginning of his life. Truth, he once wrote, "became my sole objective." The only way to approach that objective was through love. Evil must always be opposed, but not by making the evildoer suffer. Rather, one must influence the evildoer to change his ways by undergoing suffering oneself-even, if need be, unto death...
...result of a two-year collaboration between Narrator Edward R. Murrow, Writer Fred Friendly and Producer John G. Gude. From 500 hours of broadcasting they selected some 60 minutes of outstanding events. Humorist James Thurber listened to the records and, over a weekend, wrote a 10,000-word critique, recommending a new and faster opening and more condensation. The collaborators went to work again and finished up with the present tightly knit ten-side album...
...BUMP, A WORD...
...Plomb did not keep its word, and, after several suits, Plumb finally pinned Plomb down in March 1947. A U.S. district court gave the western company a year within which to stop using and advertising its name as a trademark...