Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they do say that the obstacles are economic and social, not technical. Science can stop most kinds of soil deterioration and will surely lick the rest. For the Neo-Malthusian scare-dogma that the world's soil must inevitably lose its productiveness, the soil men have a one-word answer: bunkum...
...first word of a military uprising in his native Arequipa scarcely ruffled President Jose Luis Bustamante's customary calm. Arequipa, after all, was the "Rebel City of the South," a traditional place for sudden risings and uproars. Moreover, Peru's army had just proved its loyalty by crushing the bloody Oct. 3 revolt at Callao (TIME, Oct. 11). The government put out a reassuring communiqué, ordered loyal troops to move against the rebels. But nothing happened...
...professional journalist . . . must disappear." So must most sports news. So must big display ads, a hangover from prewar days "when capitalists tried to gain the favor of the newspapers." Papers should expand their editorial boards to check and recheck "each fact, each sentence, each word, before it is printed." Who would appoint the checkers seemed to go without saying...
...weighty argument last week in the New York Times. It published a 60-page edition that contained 180 columns of news and 300 columns of ads. The 13½ oz. of paper were quite a bargain (for 3? readers got 4.2? worth of paper). But the 194,000 words of news would take the ordinary reader six to eight hours to plow through if he read every word...
...newcomer's scientific standing and what admirers call his "genius look" won him an instant audience on both campuses. But the theater almost emptied after the first act. Professor Tolman wryly congratulated Oppenheimer on his first lecture: "Well, Robert, I didn't understand a damn word." He had lectured at a breakneck pace, in abstract prose punctuated by a dozen distracting mannerisms...