Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think he has the temperament to care about little people, not the way Lyndon Johnson did." Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who testified as a character witness for Connally at his milk trial, wrote in her memoirs that she remembers how she was standing on a platform with him when word came of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and the Governor said, "Those who live by the sword die by the sword...
Connally hopes his forceful style will help him cut across ideological lines and win support from blacks and workers who have opposed him in the past. At a building trades convention in New Jersey this summer, his rousing speech had union members cheering. Labor leaders passed the word to hold back on providing him many more such forums. He campaigned last month in black and ethnic neighborhoods of Providence, and has hired a Chicago firm to devise a strategy to lure black votes...
...case against Connally, however, depended on Jacobsen's word. Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, hired by Connally for a reported $250,000 fee, hammered away at Jacobsen's testimony. In a number of instances, he forced the central prosecution witness to back down and acknowledge that he was unsure of some details. Williams also emphasized that Jacobsen, on other occasions, had admitted perjury. Cumulatively, this eroded Jacobsen's credibility and enhanced Connally's. Perhaps no less important was the parade of celebrated witnesses who testified to Connally's integrity. They included: the Rev. Billy Graham...
...little company in Metairie, La., Behavioral Engineering Center, may be a little premature in his Orwellian zeal. But the idea of subliminal communication has long intrigued behavioral scientists. In the mid-1950s a marketing researcher named James Vicary broke ground of sorts by inserting rapidly flashing words between the frames of a film to stimulate refreshment sales ("Hungry? Eat popcorn") in a Fort Lee, N.J., moviehouse. Pictures of a skull and the word blood were also added to two horror movies. But this practice soon fell out of favor after it was exposed in Vance Packard's alarming bestseller...
...like the word decadent. All shimmering with purple and gold. It throws out the brilliance of flames and the gleam of precious stones. It is made up of carnal spirit and unhappy flesh and of all the violent splendors of the Lower Empire: it conjures up the paint of courtesans, the sports of the circus, the breath of the tamers of animals, the bounding of wild beasts, the collapse among the flames of races exhausted by the power of feeling, to the invading sound of enemy trumpets. -Paul Verlaine, circa...