Word: worded
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...crowned its Stanely Cup Champion yet, but it has found its 1988 "winners" in the purest sense of the word--the New Jersey Devils...
...ready to publish his findings on the reproductive behavior of the cockroach, the army refused to give him clearance. After he submitted the paper to Washington officials for review, he recalls, "It came back with a note saying that it was unacceptable because of the use of the word 'sex' in the title. I took the word 'sex' out of the title and got back a note saying that 'the title is fine, you can't publish this because of the contents...
...What are the choices that one faces when one decides to enter the world of yuppiedom? He can present them and people can think about them as they wish. We wanted someone who knew the meaning of the word 'morality,'" Schwalbe said...
...showing off. But soon she meets the love of her life, a tank commander named Tom Southern. The savvy reader of war fiction knows at once that earnest Tom will be dead within 50 pages, but Claudia is launched on a splendidly grand passion. And when finally the disastrous word comes from the front, she shows her saving grace: guts...
Claudia's great intellectual preoccupation -- as well as the thesis of her historical volumes -- is the random nature of history. Woe to the person who sees any order in the past; kaleidoscope is Claudia's favorite word. Effective enough at first, this aspect of Moon Tiger is overdrawn and finally tedious. A similar strain shows in what are by now familiar literary musings about the ancient stones and mysterious fossils around Lyme Regis. It is possible that Dorset should be cordoned off to novelists for a decade...