Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Meany. Back came the word: "His first, second, third and fourth choices are Dunlop...
Then, a few hours before its arrival, the police got word that a U.S. customs pursuit plane with sophisticated surveillance gear had intercepted the charter as it winged its way over Key West. The airborne feds tracked the intruder up the coast, warning local police in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland and finally Pennsylvania that the plane might touch down at any time...
Nonetheless, observers in Moscow detect a distinct mellowness in some Brezhnev-dictated policies. Last month he passed word through outgoing Treasury Secretary William Simon to the President-elect that the Soviet Union has no intention of testing Carter in the early days of his Administration...
...rule: Thou shalt not take a poke at another practitioner. Last week, however, one of the nation's biggest dailies, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,005,000), threw a haymaker at a smaller paper in nearby Long Beach, the Independent, Press-Telegram. In a rambling 20,000-word account spread over seven pages, the Times accused the Long Beach paper of, among other things...
Elwyn Brooks White was the son of a carpenter, and there are times when the father's profession marks his son's tongue-and-groove sentences. Hardly a word is ever out of place; his postcards can no more be excerpted than his essays. As these letters reveal, White was, like many humorists, a secret sufferer. For most of his adult life, the writer lightly chronicles a series of illnesses and operations: "They got at the bone through my right nostril, which I consider very resourceful, and the morphine was just what I had been needing all along...