Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucy Baines Johnson, 11, had not come home for dinner. Alert reporters sounded alarms all over Washington, carried the stray's description into New Hampshire Avenue Animal Hospital, where an unidentified motorist had left a slightly battered beagle. Sure enough, it was the Johnson dog. The good word, couriered to the head of the family at a Democratic Steering Committee session, raised relieved senatorial cheers all around. Recovering after cortisone treatment for shock, and eased by phenylbutazone tablets. Little Beagle Johnson returned home under escort of Lucy Baines and a fifth L.B.J.-Lynda Bird Johnson...
WHEREVER he went-and, as it turned out, whatever he said-Anastas Mikoyan got rave notices from his cold-war-weary U.S. audiences. "Forthright," was the word used by Detroit industrialists after lunch with Mikoyan. "Refreshingly frank," glowed a U.S. State Department official. But cold print throws another light on Mikoyan's forthrightness and frankness. Traveling quote by quote with Anastas Mikoyan...
...Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, had had enough. A government official stalked into the Plough and Dial, handed Pubkeeper Ellis a royal injunction restraining him from publishing any further details about the royal family. The injunction pointed out that Ellis, on resigning, had allegedly given his word in writing-now required of all palace employees-that he would not publish any account of any incident or conversation that had come within his knowledge as a result of his royal employment...
...exodus began last September. On the holiest of Jewish holy days, Yom Kippur, word spread through Bucharest synagogues that after six long years their prayers had been answered. The Communist Rumanian government was registering Jews for permits to leave for Israel...
...pulse-racing moments in the history of the theatre. The scene, by contrast, where Alice wakes up to see the familiar symbols of reality, the beard, the pipe, and the framed diploma from Vienna, is as heartwarming an affirmation as has ever been presented on the stage. Magnificent--a word not often used in these pages--is the only word to describe the number she sings at this point, I'll Crouch on My Couch, which closes the show on a swelling note of hope...