Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of compliance with the Antiballistic Missile Treaty: the Krasnoyarsk radar station. He said Moscow would accept the "dismantling and refitting" of certain components, and place the facility under U.N. control. At his lunch with Reagan and Bush just after the speech, one American asked, "Did we hear that word dismantle right?" Replied Gorbachev: "Yes, that was the word I used...
Gorbachev's refrain of glasnost and perestroika also raises the specter of another Russian word, peredyshka, the old Leninist notion of seeking a "breathing space" by making temporary accommodations so that the revolution can eventually roar forward with renewed zeal...
...calling at the moment: First Baptist of Dallas, the 28,000-member flagship of Southern Baptist Fundamentalism. In an unusual arrangement, the church is hiring an assistant to work under the legendary W.A. Criswell, 79 next week, as his designated successor. To the chagrin of the search committee, word has leaked out that Criswell favored O.S. Hawkins, 41, of Fort Lauderdale, but the independent-minded search committee, after winnowing 50 names, has settled on James Merritt of Snellville, Ga., Criswell's junior by 43 years. Merritt, naturally...
...visit foreign cities, or even many domestic ones. Fourteen honorary degrees have come his way; he has turned down many others because he hates to travel to any college or university beyond a 400-mile limit from New York City. But this unwillingness to venture far from the word processor also gives the explainaholic a few benefits: more work hours and more books. "My pace has increased through the years," he says. "In the decade from 1950 to 1960, I wrote 32 books. From 1960 to 1970, I wrote 70; from 1970 to 1980, 109 books; and in the current...
...worth loving: "The moons of Saturn, the Bard of Avon, the mysteries of sex, the behavior of ancient societies -- all have to be analyzed before they can be appreciated." Besides, Professor Asimov has a vision: "I believe that if there's such a thing as God's word, it's rationality, and I have the call to spread...