Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine, for how the magazine shapes its picture of the world each week, and Alex relished that responsibility. His editing pencil raced across the copy, deleting, adding, transposing, scribbling questions in the margin. When the phone interrupted him, he would always answer it himself, avoiding the wasted word hello and simply stating: "Alexander...
...first packet apparently gave him a flying start on the rows of beans, peas, carrots, squash, turnips, potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes and comfrey, an herb he mainly uses for tea, that now fill his garden. Neighbors often help with the staples. "I like certain things," admits the bishop, and the word gets around. "But it is literally correct that I have not paid one penny for food for my house for the past four or five years...
When Galante got that fearful word, he was in the Metropolitan Correction Center. He soon learned that killers from two families were trying to get him: triggermen who worked for Dellacroce and others who belonged to the Colombo family, a clan that after a decade of internal struggle is trying to regain other mobsters' regard-and Dellacroce's thanks-by eliminating his rival. Knowing how easily he could be assassinated in prison, Galante arranged to have his bodyguards take up their nighttime baby-sitting beside his cell...
...Orloff, the dapper Newton was being visited in his penthouse by his tailor, Preston Callins. They began arguing about the price of suits. When Newton complained that he was being ripped off, Callins said, "Oh, baby, don't feel that way." Once again, apparently, the faintly belittling word infuriated Newton. "Nobody calls me no damn baby!" he cried. He seized a revolver, according to Orloff, and pistol whipped Callins, fracturing his skull...
...Citizen only because he was led to believe that Vorster had personally selected him for the job At one stage in the press inquiry into the scandal, a crusading editor received a message that allegedly came from the former Prime Minister himself. "Tell him to lay off," the word was passed, "or he'll have to deal with...