Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals, send me a dozen real economists.' . . . It's all a question of what we do with the next six months. The whole reason for aiding England is to give us time. ... It isn't that she's fighting for democracy. That's the bunk. She's fighting for self-preservation, just as we will if it comes...
...like the family Stein: There is Gert, there is Ep and there's Ein; Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are punk, And nobody understands...
...bunk artist come along and tell you Wendell Willkie's views are any different from that. And I may say I know how to operate such things for the benefit of those for whom I work and I shall be working for the people of the United States...
...politicians and labor leaders yelp that big business was holding back defense by refusing to cooperate with the Government, asking huge profits. Last week he got sore, lashed out a snappy (17-paragraph, onepage) letter of explanation to his employes. Said he: "There has been a lot of bunk about industry. . . . If your friends ask you what your company has done so far, you can tell them this: Your company has bid (on a competitive basis) on ten millions of dollars of Government work. . . . We have been awarded approximately two million dol lars worth of Government contracts. . . . Prices at which...
...associates in the Department of State have ever heard of any such conversations as those alleged, nor do we give them the slightest credence." From Harvard Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. denied that he had Mr. Roosevelt's ear. Said he: "A lot of bunk." In Berlin, some of the foreign correspondents who were shown the documents, written on scratch paper, reported that they looked genuine, were covered with marginal notes, apparently by Polish officials...