Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner was Harry Truman back in Washington than White House aides hastened to spread the soothing word: the Boss was not in a vindictive mood. There would be no wholesale firings in the new Administration. But some changes were certainly in the works...
...known that he was anxious to get back to a better-paying job in private life. Other Cabinet shifts were in the wind. At the behest of the President, Secretary of State George Marshall had again & again deferred his retirement. White House aides let the word drop that the President might now reluctantly let him go-and Under Secretary Robert Lovett with him. Among Democratic politicos there was little doubt that the ax was sharp for Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, who had remarked that Harry Truman's re-election was not "essential" to the national defense...
...meetings in Paris, word that Tom Dewey had conceded came just as delegates were voting on the rights of non-self-governing territories. Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky were so startled that (until they corrected themselves) they both voted yes instead of no. "Amazing, amazing," was all Vishinsky could...
...President of France did not say a word as the results came in; he just grinned. Plump Vincent Auriol was an old campaigner himself. "Toward the end," a member of his staff confided, "he was giggling." In Rio de Janeiro, 0 Mundo, called Harry Truman's victory "the most sensational news since the launching of the atomic bomb." In London (though U.S. shares dipped), British stocks went up. London's socialist Tribune took credit for not being too greatly surprised, republished a July cartoon showing Harry Truman feeling fine...
...stories. The result is readability, a fairly important aspect of fiction that has been almost totally absent from Harvard's and Radcliffe's literary magazines in the recent past. But even the very best of these stories crics out time and gain for cutting, for clarification, for a different word here, for an additional sentence there. And that is to say that although Signature is at last getting work by authors who have something worth writing, the magazine is not yet supplying editorial assistance to those authors to make the finished product polished and consistently first-class...