Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word from Capitol Hill...
...case is too small for federal action [and] state officials can't do anything because the states have no authority. That leaves the worker and his employer in this no man's land ... So all too often the dispute is settled-if we can use such a word-by force ... I want to give the states authority ... I want the no man's land abolished...
Snapped the Evening News: "Sentries have been tormented-there is no other word for it-by visitors who should know better." "Are guards to fall in line as tourist attractions along with Swiss yodelers and Indian snake charmers?" demanded the News Chronicle. The Daily Sketch, hinting that the "American Mom" had got exactly what she deserved, asked: "Why should our soldiers have to put up with this kind of treatment?" At week's end there was desperate talk of a reinforcement of extra bobbies to guard the guards who guard the palace...
...Visionary?" says Jacques Soustelle. "The word has two meanings. You can say that a man is visionary and mean that he is a fool. But if in saying that a man is visionary you mean that he sees ahead and plans for the future-yes, then I am a visionary...
...entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people." He calls for an eventual absorption of Cyprus into Greece though this would involve a breach of Greece's pledged word...