Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing on a platform alongside the 13th century cathedral of Bourges, the towering, droop-shouldered figure called out the single word, "Algeria!" Then he paused and peered down at the hundreds gathered in the square before him. The crowd had come to cheer Charles de Gaulle's progress on his automobile pilgrimage to Orléans to celebrate the 530th anniversary of the liberation of that city from the English by Joan...
...Chris-Craftsmen feel that the fine old seagoing word "head" smacks too much of hair on the chest and tattooed muscles; the company's admen are looking for a word that nicely defines the head's function at the same time that it denotes a commodious enclosure...
...time, refusing to see visitors or acknowledge telegrams. When Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this winter offered him a one-man exhibition, he turned it down. He was not ready, he said. In the past three years he has allowed only three large paintings to be sold. Word passed around that De Kooning had the jitters and would not show. But last week De Kooning was ready, and his public fell over themselves in their eagerness to prove their loyalty...
...William resembled brother Henry in appearance only. When Henry left for the city, William stayed on the farm. "I have no use for cars except as something to ride in," said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none...
...Word of the new Western position came after an American delegation spokesman called for thoroughgoing discussion in the Big Four foreign ministers meeting of the West's package plan. This envisages a phased program toward settlement of the future of Berlin and Germany and the buildup of a European security system...