Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sidewalk cafes, in dreary queues, on street corners and stubble-strewn fields throughout the world, men paused last week (as every week) to pass a word with their fellows and lighten their burdens with a wry joke. Here 85 there, as the talk shuttled, TIME'S correspondents bent an ear to listen...
...Andrei Vishinsky got called down by Committee Chairman Paul-Henri Spaak, of Belgium, for "insulting other delegates." Replied the Russian: "Unless I am allowed to continue without interruption I won't say another word." He was not interrupted...
...once, the word "efforts" applied. It had all come hard for Eliot. He had had to get all the way from the complex pretensions of his time...
...under bushy red eyebrows and a soiled worker's cap. "It's not that we object to the machine so much," Alf said. "We're all for the machine just so it don't replace us and make us-" he groped for a 10-bob word-"and make us redundant. But the guv'nor [the boss] just put it on without consulting us and laid off those men. We can't allow that...
...Tacho switched Presidents, the U.S. State Department recognized the regime (TIME, May 17). Thus Somoza was in a position to buy U.S. warplanes and to start closing the lead gained by Guatemala's air force during his stay in the doghouse. He was also busily spreading the word that the Guatemalans, the Caribbean Legion and everybody else conspiring against him were Communists...