Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations . . . It comes as a welcome relief to find someone brave enough to suggest that with all its clamor and clangour there is possibly a word to be said for New York City...
There is no visible place in TIME'S picture of New York for wholesome American living or normal American people . . . The article passes over New York's true importance in the national scene, allowing only an incidental word for the city as a port, a marketplace, a tourist center, as a "fountain spout" of culture, finding time for no mention at all of its place as a national center of music, higher education, medical research, managerial leadership, publishing, or the American tradition of human rights...
...Teeny, Weeny Bill." Then the word came from Martin's office. Congress would work all night until it got a housing and a farm bill, then adjourn. Tired conferees met for yet another session. At 2:45 a.m. the housing compromise was ready. It wasn't much. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney called it "a teeny, weeny housing bill." It provided only for a government secondary market for G.I. mortgages, authorized veterans cooperative apartments. Wolcott...
...word went round Jersey Joe Walcott's training camp that Champion Joe Louis was worried. He actually sent a spy over to scout the enemy. But when the champ's agent arrived, Walcott's men gave him the eye-and the bum's rush. They had him halfway out the door before Jersey Joe intervened. "Let him watch," he ordered. Then Challenger Walcott, using pillowy 16-oz. gloves, neatly flattened a sparring partner. Said he: "Tell Nicholson to take that back to Louis...
With last week's good news, Secretary Symington added a word of warning: all contracts will be given a searching review in September and again in December. They may be revised if production isn't up to snuff, or if better ships are developed faster than expected...