Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most concertgoers, who don't get to hear much of his music, Arnold Schoenberg has a reputation as a musical wild man with some sort of grudge against melody. He has none of the look of a wild man about him, and wild is no word for the sobersided way he goes about plotting his revolution in music...
...study for the next 3½ years. His desk was a card table, his bedroom was his office. In a sloppy dressing gown, Hopkins would traipse through the White House corridors to consult Roosevelt or Churchill. Usually he was miserably ill (cancer, ulcers, numerous complications), but at a word from F.D.R. he was on his way. He usually knew the President's mind so well on any given subject that specific instructions were unnecessary (Roosevelt to Stalin: "I ask you to treat Mr. Hopkins with the identical confidence you would feel if you were talking directly...
Buckram-bound, lead-heavy, but never slaphappy, Vogue's contribution to democratic amity makes Emily Post look like an aborigine. Four years in the making (by a Vogue associate editor), it pronounces the last, unquestionable Word on subjects ranging from table manners and cookery to the knottier intricacies of proper behavior for divorcees and the correct way to address a letter to an Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church ("The Very Reverend Archimandrite"). Cold-toned, it tries to sell etiquette purely as a civic virtue. "Think of ball games," raps Author Fenwick (who obviously never does) "without a conventional...
...From the Taino word batata, pronounced...
Crisp was the word to describe Harvard's blocking and tackling. The Crimson hit so hard that Brown linemen went down, and stayed down. Blockers didn't stop confusedly when they missed assigned blocks, but went on to flatten the nearest man in a white shirt...