Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much faster with their fingers than other people talk with their tongues.) To preach a sermon vocally and sign it at the same time is like preaching in two languages. Sign language is literal: "man" is touching the brow (man tipping hat); "woman" is touching the chin (woman tying bonnet strings). It has no syntax, consists of isolated words which the deaf piece together to make sense. "Man, working, tall, house, fall" means "A man working on the roof of a tall house fell...
...were more concerned with the war's trend, and in their concern De Gaulle won a signal diplomatic victory-still without benefit of tact. France's united front was a bid for recognition and participation in any Allied peace negotiations with Italy. Said Commissioner of Information Henri Bonnet: "I hope [the new accord] will have a good effect on ... the U.S. and Britain. . . . Nonrecognition will not prevent us from becoming stronger...
Next day the Committee's 13 members (the 14th member, Henri Bonnet, was en route from the U.S.) held their first plenary session, agreed on procedure, began discussions. The event was important, for it helped to clear a stifled political atmosphere, shifted emphasis from single personalities to group judgments. Said one pleased committeeman: "A democratic institution has been born...
...newsreels, which have broken more candidates than the old two-thirds rule, he can pose without a qualm. Even with an Indian bonnet or a dead fish, the crudest newsreel props of all, he is neither overwhelming nor silly. He can wear striped pants without looking as if 1) they are rented, or 2) he approves of them...
...Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, for forwarding to General Douglas Mac-Arthur, went a war bonnet from the Indian Confederation of America. Same week MacArthur broke into the British Who's Who. To Joseph Stalin (who already has a bonnet from the Indian Confederation), the new Who's Who gave eight times as many lines as he had last year (5 to 40). Other newcomers besides MacArthur: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, Admiral Harold R. Stark. Donald Nelson was in, but not Leon Henderson; Edward R. Stettinius...