Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's publicans were setting up their nightly cry of "Time, gentlemen" and were just closing when the long vigil at the palace gates was at last rewarded. At 10:10 p.m., from out of the palace bustled a young, blue-clad page. He whispered a word to the bobby at the gate. The bobby nodded. "It's a boy," he announced solemnly, then, throwing his chest out and his head full back, he shouted for all to hear; "A Prince has been born...
...could prove that word came down from on high. Nevertheless, in midweek, AFA unexpectedly called off the suspension, offered to arbitrate the dispute. Negotiations dragged, and the clubs got set for Sunday games with non-union oldsters and youngsters. Smart porteño money was on a settlement that would shortly have the stars back on the field, kicking and happy...
...thin lock of grey hair that slipped over his right temple made him seem older than his years. His hands trembled as he toyed with the black ribbon of his pince-nez. His voice was unusually low, and sometimes he seemed to be groping for the right word...
Campbell stayed quiet long enough to stake 30 claims. Another prospector, Norbert Miller of Toronto, saw him staking, guessed what was up. As the word spread along what prospectors call "the moccasin trail," the rush started. In no time 500 claims had been staked around Campbell's. When Campbell's ore samples showed a 60% content of radioactive mineral and 99% of it uranium (10% is considered pay dirt), the boom went skyhigh...
...movies had begun to talk, and Tallulah returned to the U.S. to get a word in. Under a $100,000 Paramount contract, she played bad girls redeemed by the love of a good man in a series of pictures with titles that now sound like perfumes ( Tarnished Lady, My Sin, Faithless). The pictures gave off a bad scent, and Paramount dropped her option. Her movie career was a failure until Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Lifeboat (1944), which won the New York film critics' award for the best actress' performance of the year. Her only movie since...