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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bugging us." And his motive for keeping the thing secret? No cover-up, just that "in everything I was saying, or certainly thinking at the time, was but...to sure that as far as any slip-over, or should I say "slop-over" I think would be a better word. Any slop-over in a way that would damage innocent people, or blow it into political proportions...it was that that I certainly wanted to avoid...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Three More Weeks | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Stevens has conducted a massive campaign of illegal actions--discharge and intimidation of workers, interference in union activities, overt racial discrimination, and wiretapping. It has been found guilty of repeated labor-law violations and fined almost $1.5 million in the last 15 years. While Stevens is not a household word (yet), it is infamous to people in the industrial relations field. Boyd Leedom, former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), said: "J.P. Stevens is so out of tune with a humane, civilized approach to industrial relations that it should shock even those least sensitive to honor, justice...

Author: By Timothy G. Massad, | Title: Battling the Modern Sweatshops | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

...dance phrase (or perhaps shyly inviting friends home), "I think there's some cider." He turns, a reserved host, slips on his sandals and walks off upstage. Those watching aren't sure if it's intermission or if the concert's over, but soon someone passes the right word, and everyone stands to stretch and stroll over to inspect the array of unusual percussion instruments...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Knots and Bolts | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

However much the Fogg's collection may resemble that of a Renaissance man, a connoisseur, it is also unforgettably the collection of a teaching museum. The range of paintings exhibited and the manner in which they are arranged is educational in the best sense of the word. It's not just that the exhibit is an art history survey in miniature, but that works of this quality leave you with a sense of transmitted vision. About suffering, or anything else, they were never wrong, the Old Masters...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Old Friends, Well Met | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

...Navy, employing techniques developed for raising sunken submarines, finally saves just about everyone, and that part of the film has documentary interest. Still, one cannot help feeling that something is wrong with the movie's value systems. Nary a word of regret is spared for the great art that ends up in Davy Jones's locker, while there is rejoicing over the salvage of the most expendable portion of the cargo -all those stale hams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Misnomer | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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