Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object to the term pariah in your story on the Pope's meeting with Kurt Waldheim. According to the dictionary, a pariah is an outcast. To use this word to describe President Waldheim, Austria's head of state, was offensive...
Surprisingly, many Seattle residents seem unperturbed that the killer is still at large. "People hear the word prostitute and don't perceive it as their problem," says Task Force Detective David Walker. Pierce Brooks, an investigative consultant who worked on the California Onion Field killing of the 1960s and the Atlanta child murders of 1979 to 1981, believes the Green River slayer's name is already in the task force's files. Says Brooks: "The only way you're going to dig the name out is to hang on and keep going...
Rather than apologize for lying to congressional committees about his role in the contra military effort, North boasted, "I didn't want to show Congress a single word on this whole thing." Said he: "Lying does not come easy to me. But we all had to weigh in the balance the difference between lives and lies." Yet North seemed caught in a contradiction between this assertion and his insistence that his support for the Nicaraguan rebels was always in full compliance with...
...When word arrived that Calvin Coolidge was dead, she asked her fellow wits at the Algonquin Round Table, "How can they tell?" When Dorothy Parker died in 1967, nobody doubted that a void had been left in the ranks of major American humorists. Parker's friend and fellow writer Lillian Hellman arranged to have her ashes placed in a New York mortuary. But after Hellman's death three years ago, Parker's remains were moved to a safe in the Manhattan office of her executor, Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, who hoped that someone, possibly a distant relative, might step forward...
...invasion of the Philippines, former President Ferdinand Marcos warned the man against using the telephone. The phones, said Marcos, could be tapped and used to record their conversation. The warning was ironic. Even as he spoke with Marcos, the businessman, Electronics Executive Robert Chastain, was secretly taping their every word with a special voice-activated recorder built into his burgundy-colored briefcase...