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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assigned to the White House on Jan. 20, "the man the press saw and talked with day after day is virtually no longer visible, let alone accessible." Reporters trying to get a lead on the Cabinet appointments are reduced to watching for "a hint, a clue, a casual word from one of the interviewees or a wink from a Carter aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...TIME'S Jerrold Schecter?hardly a crowd designed for secrecy. Nobody bought Califano's white lie that he had been talking to his wife, and when he got off the phone, one guest shouted: "He's just been offered the regional HUD job in Mississippi!" By next morning, the word was all over official Washington that Califano was a candidate for Secretary of Commerce, HEW or Housing and Urban Development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TRANSITION: DOWN TO THE 'SHORT LISTS' | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Though he stood aloof from the struggle and made a point of saying, "I can work with anyone," he is known to loathe Burton. Suddenly, an emissary burst from the Speaker's lobby, where the secret paper ballots were being counted, held up one finger and passed the word to members: Wright 148, Burton 147. Tip O'Neill was grinning, ear to ear. The early speculation was proved wrong: 53 Boiling voters swung to Wright and only 40 to Burton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: After the Walkover, a Squeaker | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...risks he takes, Chirac's operations are meticulously planned and executed. Before picking a new name for his party, he consulted marketing experts and conducted polls on key words. It was discovered that rassemblement was better received than mouvement. République and française (which was later dropped from the name because Chirac thought it suggested a challenge to the government) struck responsive chords, though democratic did not. Indeed, a computer analysis revealed that De Gaulle had used the word only nine times in all his public speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Political Poker Is His Game | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Word of advice, some of Santa's finer...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: A Christmas Chimera | 12/19/1976 | See Source »

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