Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President had decided against production of the weapon by immediately announcing that he had resolved only to postpone production. Vance argued for a week's delay in which to brief affected NATO allies. He was given only a few days, but it was time enough to get out advance word and limit the diplomatic damage...
...this from my training as a lawyer. You have to be damn careful. If you're loose with what you say, you may have lost the case. I am dealing with a lot of nations who are watching. Don't think they don't dissect every word. Every time you vary one word or one clause from the standard formulation, you get a rocket from each of the parties saying you've changed the position...
...Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said to have sentenced a naked Frisbee player to plant fig trees in a park...
...that societies that he and others have studied have a continuity based on female descent and kinship, that males are usually unable to "lead" females anywhere, and that dominance hierarchies do not fit any simplistic males-are-dominant-over-passive-females model. Almost as if he had omitted the word "not" from a quotation, Emmerich represented DeVore as saying something 180 degrees the opposite of one of the lecture's main points. Afterwards, several listeners complimented DeVore on his delivery of one of the most anti-sexist lectures they'd ever heard, sociobiological or non-sociobiological...
Director Diana Carpenter and choreographer Amy Ragsdale appear to have staged every word, polishing gestures and blocking to the point of stylization. Invention tops invention, and the tempo never falters; the quieter numbers seem to roll gracefully out of the frenetic moments, picking up speed and then tossing us back into the razzle-dazzle. Ragsdale choreographs persons and not feet; every limb has its moment in the spotlight, bobbing bodies trade steps from one corner of the stage to another--and when all that fascinating business converges into a single group motion, the effect is exhilarating. The chorus slides into...