Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles is gone, and all America will miss him. But most of all, he'll be missed by those of us who I know are many-ex-Marines-who saw in him a man with spine, guts and self-respect. This was an American. This...
...crust of this old earth ready for Kiesler's structures such as "Endless House" [May 25], which are not premeditated by the prerequisites of conventional planning to secure the bank loan and a dogmatic facade for thy neighbor's sake? American suburbia still says no, I'm afraid...
Alas for the Great White Goof [the Senate Office Building fiasco, May 25]. We Britons are acutely aware of our awful blunders of inefficiency, such as the Preston Motorway and British Railways, and I have for quite a time used examples of American efficiency to great effect in grammar-school debates. This powerful and humiliating weapon is now useless. You Americans are fatheads...
...subjects." The couple's actual crime was nothing more than to kiss each other good night in a parked car. They spent their honeymoon money for their defense and were acquitted-but the judge refused to award them the costs of their defense. Similarly, last week American Actor Horace Marshall, who played God in the BBC-TV production of Green Pastures, was acquitted of living off the earnings of a prostitute, but though the London magistrate dismissed the case before Marshall even finished testifying, he refused to award him ?300 in court costs on the ground that the police...
...this crucial question a correlation between religious conviction and political policy is dimly suggested which, if it can be trusted, is of the very first philosophical importance. There are two statistical facts 1.) that among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative in the face of an otherwise inevitable world war with the Soviet Union was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one 2.) the group of 215 who chose war include over fourfifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality...