Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fact is, the ad was chock-full of sugar-coated truth, half-truths and outright untruths. But don't take my word for it--a council member told me that the ad was "the biggest load of horseshit I've ever seen...
...years ago when I was a first-year student. It came unexpectedly from a white student who, under normal circumstances, was cordial to me. But during one evening of heavy drinking, he came at me, unprovoked, hurling out that much abhorred racial epithet that is a corruption of the word "Negro...
...those William Safire wannabees who get huffy when someone misuses the word "disinterested," read no further. Popular culture has irretrievably eroded the meaning of the word "classic." A disc jockey at WSLQ in Roanoke, VA recently persuaded this listener to turn the dial when he announced, "Coming up next: A classic from...
...give up on farming altogether and migrate to the Amazon's new cities to find work. For many the net effect of the attempt to colonize Rondonia has been a shift from urban slums to Amazonian slums. Says Donald Sawyer, a demographer from the University of Minas Gerais: "The word is out that living on a 125-acre plot in the jungle is not that good...
...ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. Milo is a barnyard kitten and Otis his dogged friend in this live-action children's film narrated by Dudley Moore. If cute were still a word of approval, Masanori Hata's charming parable would earn...