The call finally came with definite word.
And there was still, for minutes that seemed very long, no definite word.
Until I get a definite word, I'll just have it in the back of my mind.
Yesterday there was no definite word as to whether the Goodman would be able to produce the show during the 2002-3 season.
Yes, a trusted source called at four in the morning, with definite word of a lateafternoon attack, but his last two attack warnings had been wrong.
No one had yet given him any definite word on the President's condition; no one had yet made, in that little curtained room, any explicit statement.
There's no definite word on that play's future, but this week brought word that Mary-Louise Parker, the star of "Proof," has apparently opted out of the Roundabout Theater Company's fall production of "Desire Under the Elms".
Toscanini has cabled to us that he will be here in January," said Arthur Judson, manager of the orchestra, "and definite word of his coming is a source of gratification to the Philharmonic Society, as it must be also to our subscribers and the rest of the music lovers of New York.
His statement was the first definite word from Macedonia's government that it would accept NATO's advice to extend for three months, beginning Jan . 1 the mandate of 1,000 troops to guard civilian monitors and defuse tensions between security forces and the former rebels.
Youngblood and Roberts continued, in Youngblood's phrase, to "press Johnson" to leave the hospital "immediately" — they "suggested that he think it over, as he would have to be sworn in" — but Johnson didn't change his mind "about staying put until there was some definite word on the President".
In August the French admiral sent definite word that he preferred the Chesapeake, with its large area and deep water, as the scene of his operations; and within a week, on August 19, 1781, Washington marched south with his army, leaving Gen. William Heath with 4,000 men to hold West Point.
