Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After nearly a month had passed and no word on the matter came from the Solicitor's office, DeGuglielmo introduced another order stating "that it is the considered policy of the City Council" that the use of coin-operated machines (except vending machines and juke boxes) be prohibited...
...labor came to serve, in big segments of the labor movement as protection for power-hungry and corrupt leaders of top-dog labor. Moreover, labor's leaders, having won their economic battle, failed to work out a philosophy going beyond oldtime A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers' antiquated one-word creed: "More." Armed with special privileges written into law, labor kept pushing for more "more," often at the expense of the economy's stability and orderly growth...
...Bounced back the latest Soviet complaint that the West was trying to sabotage the coming East-West talks (by sending planes along the air corridors into Berlin above 10,000 feet, by rearming West Germany, etc.) with the stinging word "hypocritical...
...group of 30 'Cliffies recently petitioned the Administration to remove the word "Radcliffe" from Percussion's banner, claiming that the paper was unworthy of the college...
...Word went round Detroit that G.M. was ready to scrap well-liked Ed Ragsdale. Finding a replacement was not easy: few of G.M.'s success-conscious comers wanted to take on Buick's woes. One G.M. veep, so the story went, was offered Ragsdale's job, nervously said no: "This is a promotion I don't deserve. Can't you please find somebody else to reward...