Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...codes. The official news agency has reported that quasi-independent "procuratorates," vaguely similar to U.S. grand juries, have been re-established throughout China. These bodies were abolished during the Cultural Revolution-the heyday of Mao's effort to create a society in which the only law was his word...
...from outside the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan, and that they "need not be citizens of Egypt or Jordan." Moreover, the U.S. believes that a political solution for the occupied territories must also recognize the "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and their just requirements." In the complicated code-word diplomacy of the Middle East, these seemingly innocent phrases meant to Jerusalem that the U.S. favored the participation of Israel's implacable enemy, the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Maverick Economist Alfred Kahn has a penchant for candor that is both refreshing and dangerous in Washington. When he said that there is the possibility of a "deep, deep depression" if inflation continues to soar, the President was furious. Kahn responded by purging the word depression from his vocabulary and instead using "banana." So he now says: "We're in danger of having the worst banana in 45 years...
...rather than some specially invented one, as Bergerac proudly notes. He explains: "In doing it that way you do not discriminate. What we are saying is that black ladies are important enough for us to use our own name in appealing to them." (The courtly Bergerac still uses the word "ladies" quite as often as "women...
...part series titled Edward and Mrs. Simpson on the telly, the lady herself lies ailing and aggrieved in her Paris villa. The Duchess of Windsor, now 82, is said to feel that the show portrays her as the future King's "mistress" and a "cheap adventuress." Comes the word from her lawyer, Suzanne Blum: "She was the reluctant partner. The King did not want a mistress, and if he had he would not have abdicated. He wanted a wife and the support of one woman for the rest of his life." To prove it, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson...