Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S readers, including many in Panama, will be pleasantly surprised to hear that "bitter" is too strong a word for ex-President Harmodio Arias' feeling toward his brother, ex-President Arnulfo...
...TIME pleads guilty to the U.S. custom of applying the word divorced to both parties, regrets that its U.S. usage was misunderstood in England, assures the Duchess of Westminster that it had no intention of accusing her of having been the guilty party...
While the AEC stood still, military staffs and armchair strategists toyed (that seemed to be the word) with the possibilities of the atom. One current and quite plausible notion of how to keep the Red Army from seizing Europe: drop intensely poisonous atomic dust to form a barrier between the U.S.S.R. and the land to the west of it. Such a cordon might last for years; it would not, however, prevent the Russians from developing bacteriological weapons, possibly more deadly than the atom (see MEDICINE), which could be sent across the barrier...
...Communists haven't changed our program of reform since we left the government. Only today we obviously cannot realize it by collaborating with the government, but by popular pressure. The news is false which the rightist press has been distributing about the date of a revolution." Choosing each word carefully, he concluded: "But one can never, generally speaking, rule out an eruption of movements of revolutionary character. Even to found the United States of America a revolution was necessary...
Soviet citizens fervently hoped that the years ahead would prove him right, especially about the next to the last word...