Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woke his wife, a former secretary, to type up a statement. It took him 90 minutes to write 117 words suggesting that Wilson's appearance should be canceled. About 3:30 a.m. he called Fred Gillies, state G.O.P. campaign manager. "I've got to do this, Fred," the governor said. About 4:30 a.m.-just in time for morning newscasts-he personally phoned his statement to statehouse reporters...
...Dear Comrade," wrote Jawaharlal Nehru to each member of his Cabinet. "On the eve of my visit to China, I venture to write to you to dispel doubts and rumors." In 1,300 loosely strung words, the leader of the world's second most populous nation proclaimed that he would not run for re-election as Congress Party president when his term expires next January and would not "function as Prime Minister for at least some time." Instead, said handsomely aging (64) Nehru, he wanted time to read and think while others showed how they could run India...
...anti-Communist revolution, was legally confirmed in office. By having the voters asked out loud whether they wanted him to continue in office and requiring an oral answer, he managed to roll up the vote in the proportion of 1,000 to one. Concurrent elections for an assembly to write a new constitution produced some possibly troublesome opposition for the future-not from the well-beaten Communists, but from ambitious politicos of the extreme right wing. ¶ Honduras went anxiously to the polls, fearing armed revolution as the likely upshot of a three-way presidential race that looked like...
...employ casual labor), make up opposites (diseconomy, derestrict), and use unnecessary nouns as escapee ("We already have escaper"). He indulges recklessly in the not un-habit (not unjustifiably, not unduly unreasonable), shilly-shallies hopelessly in the apparent belief that "mistiness is the mother of safety." Thus, he will write, "In transmitting this matter to the Council the Minister feels that it may be of assistance to them to learn that, as at present advised, he is inclined to the view that, in existing circumstances, there is, prima facie, a case for . . .", which is tantamount to saying, "This is what...
...when he was 22, Taubes published a study of philosophies of history since Augustine. Scholars praised his initial work, and among them Carl J. Friedrich described it as an extraordinarily brilliant books for one of his age to write, and one which I should be proud to have written...