Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour and 45 minutes later, a few words edited to his liking, the President told Dulles to go ahead and release the historic 800-word document. Its clearly phrased message: the U.S. would fight if the Chinese Communists should move in on Quemoy, Little Quemoy or the Matsus...
...written or spoken word, Dulles laid down these points...
...liked but to demand respect. Outside San Diego's Russ Auditorium, big, dead-serious Bill Knowland seemed incongruous against the stock California political backdrop-a marimba band, Japanese girls, a flame swallower in vaquero costume. Knowland moved carefully among some 300 people, here pausing for a solemn word, there posing with a tight grin for a photograph, all the while working toward the speaker's platform. Once he got there, Knowland wasted little time on howdy-dos, plowed straight away into his speech. "I know of no campaign," rumbled Oakland Tribune Assistant Publisher Knowland, "that may determine...
...people we are." His voice breaking with emotion, De Gaulle shouted: "With all my heart, in the name of France, I ask you to answer oui." But over De Gaulle's head as he spoke floated a cluster of red, white and blue balloons bearing the single word...
...century A.D., the Emperor Trajan startled Rome's housewives by introducing the revolutionary idea of the covered market. It seemed the last word in shopping, and for the next 18 centuries it was the last word-in Italy. Every weekday morning for those 1,800-odd years, the Italian housewife (or her maid) set out on the same ritualistic, time-consuming round...