Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavs get word that the Italians are going to destroy anything, they will force their way across our lines and then we'll be in a hell of a spot. I've tried to explain to the Italians. But it's damn difficult to convince them...
...atheism, a retired Palo Alto court reporter named Robert Harold Scott had petitioned the FCC to revoke the stations' licenses. For 16 months the FCC juggled this hot potato. Finally, it denied Scott's petition, but said in the course of a 2,500-word decision: "Freedom of religious belief necessarily carries with if freedom to disbelieve, and freedom of speech means freedom to express disbeliefs as well as beliefs...
...ritual, according to William Seabrook, late, hard-drinking popularizer of the incredible: "Before an altar surmounted by a crucifix turned upside down, and on which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over...
Then Ed Kennedy, A.P. boss in Europe and veteran of 13 years with the A.P., got word that the Germans had announced the surrender over the Flensburg radio. He tried to reach Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's bumbling press chief, finally got to the chief U.S. censor. "I give you warning now,'' said Ed Kennedy, "that I am going to release the story. I see no further reason for SHAEF to withhold...
...Take my word for it," he tells his dog, "the man who lives on his own land is an independent man. He who pays his way is a king. He who keeps his sheep alive through the winter lives in a palace." Hardly a palace, Summerhouses farmhouse is a combination living room-dining room-bedroom-kitchen, with a reeking stable for the stock below. The one true luxury in the house is Grandmother's solid silver earpick, an heirloom...