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Word: wordings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept his word. When the teamster goons went into action, Seattle police looked the other way; at times they even convoyed teamster-driven trucks through C.I.O. picket lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Herdsman | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...orderly called General Li to the phone. He talked for a moment in a low voice and returned to the table. In the candlelight the lines on his youthful face-he is 44 - had sagged. He stared at his rice bowl, then explained quietly that he had just had word of a radio message from his friend General Huang. "The trap is closing," said Li. "He must have help soon. We must reach him in two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle Piece | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Strauss: Thus Spake Zarathustra (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Victor, 9 sides). Though Zarathustra hasn't much to say, Conductor Rodzinski doesn't miss a word. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...officials in the state, and regularly prints box scores of legislative votes. Evjue harried Republican Governor Julius Heil out of office in 1942 by publishing a daily record of his absenteeism ("He's In," "He's Out"). Wisconsin has even coined the word "ev-juing" to describe the whip-smarting way he lays into an errant governor, legislator or dogcatcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rivals | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...lovers can hear on this album how good movie music can be. English Composer William Walton did a lot in Olivier's Henry V to lift the standards of film scores; in Hamlet he raises a craft to an art. The score never intrudes, but accompanies the spoken word like an orchestra accompanying the piano or violin in a concerto. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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