Word: butting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Holland in 1918, the Dutch people fed and helped starving German children, but the same children came back in 1940 with tanks and hand grenades to kill their well-doers-and history will repeat itself . . .
... It is glibly easy to nominate Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill or Stalin. But it was Lenin who started the main current of events which in one way or another brought out the greatness in these men . . . The acknowledgement should go to the man who started it all, Lenin, damn him!
I nominate a man . . . who would never win a popular election, but who, I am confident, has exerted more influence than any other man of our time-Sigmund Freud.
Last week, as it prepared to celebrate Christmas, America was not much more than a scattering of houses along a mile of muddy road-the original river town had long since disappeared and its traces had been erased by plowing. America's farms were small; its citizens tilled a...
"The Coming of the King." The general store-a narrow, yellowing building which had been the railroad station in the days when trains still stopped at America-was in the center of America's Christmas rush. In a financial sense, it wasn't much of a store-its...