Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position in the Middle East crisis is less than laudable. "Neutrality in thought, word and deed" when the tiny land of Israel was threatened with annihilation by the collective armies of 14 nations will not be regarded as neutrality by future historians...
Dodd's arguments seemed to create enough question about his role in the double-billing episodes to make some Senators accept his word above that of Michael O'Hare, one of the aides who stole Dodd's records. O'Hare had testified that Dodd ordered him to collect travel money from both the Senate and private organizations. Last week Dodd contended that if he had wanted to cheat in this manner, he could have done so on a grand scale rather than take merely $1,700 over five years. It was all O'Hare...
...groceries and betel-nut shops, and they are sold alongside candy, soda, neckties and other household items. All display India's ubiquitous family-planning emblem-a red triangle around a drawing of a family of four, the official ideal. The condoms carry the brand name Nirodh, a Sanskrit word roughly translatable as "freedom from fear." Indian men have been enthusiastic customers, partly because the contraceptives cost less than 2? for a packet of three. Of course, there have been some problems. Though family planners had assumed that the contraceptive's shape would suggest the method...
...exclusive. A scoop, Rather. But hold on. The President did not know that the cameras were on, said Press Secretary George Christian, who passed the word to Rather via a CBS Washington, D.C., studio executive. Dan can use the material that he got as the basis of a news report, but as for use of the taped interview itself, the President would Rather...
Humor was, after all, her basic form of dress and address. And humor passes through the most ephemeral of fashions. The concept of wit, the very word, today suggests a dated elegance. Gone is the vintage innocence, masquerading as chic, that Miss Dorothy Parker symbolized. Things are now laughed about that she would have found vulgar, if not downright indiscreet. Humor today is broad and black. Perhaps it is more human; it is certainly less artificial. Yet the suspicion mounts that behind the laughter of "alienation," there is a wide streak of sentimentality, too, just as there was behind...