Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here they were treated like long-lost relatives. Mary, the waitress, treats them like a "godmother," serving them a strict diet of cheeseburgers and "chocolate malted frappes." "Here we can sing until the frappes curdle, and nobody says a word," the choresters exclaim...
...rations 'im. Well, Old Joe 'adn't got no choice really. But although Sir Stafford cleared 'is debts for 'im, and gave 'im ?100 'e needn't 'ave, Old Joe 'asn't got a good word to say for Sir Stafford...
Mikolajczyk's return to Poland, in June 1945, was the first Big Power accomplishment under Yalta's charter. With Mikolajczyk in Britain again, everyone understood that Yalta was indeed, in George Marshall's word, "remote...
...Sicily will be an eye-opener for many a reader fattened on the journalists' "blood and guts" legend: "Just finished reading the Koran-a good book and interesting." Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress of word-of-mouth rumor in Arab country at 40-60 miles a day. In spite of his regard for the Koran he concluded: "To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab...
...Advocate, timid and hesitating when it came back last Spring has grown bolder now that it has re-established its old, though questionable, spot in the undergraduates hearts. In a word, it's getting more "aesthetic." The long, serious story smacks self-consciously of Jayvee, the short, light one of Virginia Woolf and what is really unfortunate, the medium-sized, straight forward story is loaded with cliches of technique and language. Some excellent art and drama criticism helps the magazine out of what many may consider the esoteric doldrums, but the real regret of the impartial follower of the Advocate...