Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no change in U.S. foreign policy, he said, referring to the congressional squabbling (see above). There was a dilemma, he added, between the great need for as full and as quick public information as possible, and the equally great need for a certain amount of privacy and calm. He remembered once talking about this in a lecture under the heading of "The Bureaucrat's Dilemma, or Why Diplomats Become Dipsomaniacs...
...notice of the Rankin pension grab (see The Congress) with a little speech to officials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "I hope it will be possible for you to help me to help the veterans of this country understand that this United States is theirs . . . and there are certain limits to which its financial welfare cannot be stretched...
...have grave doubts Japan has any value in a war with Russia. I think it might be better to pull out before the war started ... I am not so certain we could hold Japan, nor am I certain it would be worthwhile as long as we have Okinawa and the Philippines...
...Peter told the Pacific Congress about the difficult problem of clothes among the Polynesians. Early missionaries, shocked by their healthy nakedness, taught them to cover their shame with long, ugly Mother Hubbards. Now some of this teaching is wearing off. On certain islands, reported Sir Peter, the natives go naked on weekdays, wear their Mother Hubbards only for Sunday churchgoing. "They are in something of a quandary," he explained. "They have observed that the whites, who made them wear clothes, are wearing less & less themselves. 'Perhaps we were right about clothes in the first place,' the Polynesians...
...tunes are still as fresh and bouncy as they were, all but one having been unhonored with the sudden but certain death of a radio song...