Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned to AEC, the affair was reported to the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee on June 17. The boys were kept under surveillance while the Justice Department and AEC debated whether there was any way to hold a trial without revealing atomic secrets. Publicly, no one said a word...
That was enough for vigorous Argentine Ambassador Hugo Oderigo. He issued a communiqué charging a "certain Argentine politician" with breaking his word not to discuss politics. Palacios heard of the statement, canceled his plane passage, and in a booming voice called on two friends to proceed as seconds to challenge the Ambassador to a duel...
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Peter Fryer consulted it for a week, then replied: "I have given my word that ... I shall not engage in public Communist activities. . . . But I am not able to go further because . . . my beliefs are so much a part of my life that it would not be possible...
...Word for It. Clarence Francis, chairman of General Foods Corp., told a congressional committee that food prices (see Commodities) may drop as much as 15% by harvest time next year. Along with this far-fetched hope, Francis had a new word for the economic drop which he expected by year's end. It will not be "a depression or even a recession. I prefer to call it a 'corrective,' and a fairly mild one at that...