Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Addressing the Public Relations Society of America, Sawyer had some even kinder words: "We have passed the time when intelligent Americans use the word 'profit' as a curse," he said. "The idea of accepting a relatively modest profit in order to sell more goods to more people is one of the most progressive ideas in the world today. I will go further. I will say that this idea is the only really radical idea in the modern world...
...carried off State Department documents for Chambers and another underground courier named David Carpenter. He had delivered about 400 of them. But he swore that none of the Government's exhibits had been among them. Cross questioned him closely and with relish about "stealing" official papers, a word which obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated to raise a doubt in the jury's mind: Wadleigh said that he might conceivably have seen eight...
...headquarters in the vast I.G. Farben building in Frankfurt, correspondents busily buttonholed U.S. officials and tried to pump them for news. Word had got out that High Commissioner John J. McCloy had received a new directive from Washington on U.S. policy in Germany. "I don't see what all the fuss is about," snapped one of McCloy's top aides. "There's very little in the directive that you couldn't have written yourself...
...boss, Vulko Chervenkov, "is nothing but Titoism on Bulgarian soil." Through the summer and fall, Kostov and ten alleged accomplices were prepared for another big Communist show trial. It was reported that Kostov was flown to Moscow for "rehearsals." His jailers persuaded Kostov to write a 32,000 word "confession" of his anti-Russian activities, including the customary self-accusations that he had been a paid U.S. agent and had plotted the overthrow of the Bulgarian government with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
What did the word "others" mean? Other NROTC men? Other undergraduates? Wednesday night the Bureau of Naval Personnel wired the CRIMSON: "Word 'others' refers to all other persons, regardless of naval or academic affiliations, within the recollection of the individual, who are personally known by him and who are also personally known by him and who are also personally known by him to be or have been similarly associated or acting...