Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes after the last of the first bracket of matches had been completed, word went through the gallery that Charlie Poletti had won at seventh singles, 15-8, 15-7, 15-7, to give the Crimson an insurmountable 5-0 advantage...
There is but one solution that stands a chance of being adopted, and that is that the work load be reduced to two 1,000 word essays, one in the fall, the other in the spring and that the essays be based on the tutorial reading assign- ments, the length of which is not to exceed 200 pages a fortnight. This new sophomore tutorial would carry, like the old, no course credit...
...Mexico the key word was bienvenido-welcome. There, for two days last week, the President of the U.S. saw and felt one of the warmest examples of bienvenido of his confetti-showered career. It blazoned from a sign at Acapulco's airport, rustled in the color riot of tropical vegetation, in the rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect...
...copies in the South alone. Folsom Prison Blues, Ballad of a Teen-Age Queen-everything he turned out became a hit. And everything he composed came easily. "I write songs in the back of the car," Johnny explains, "or in hotel rooms, in planes." But "write" is the wrong word. He cannot read a note. Johnny simply picks out the tunes that arrange themselves in his head, plays them over and over till the boys know them well and can record them on tape...
WRITING: "The news writer is an artist. In its simplest terms, art is the business of selecting for effect-plus skill. The writer is the creative manipulator of the most plastic, the most resistant, the most mercurial and yet the stickiest substance known to man-the written word...