Word: cites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figures you cite show that the Union idea, after only three years of campaigning on this plane, is about as strong as isolationism is now. In the circumstances, that fact might reasonably be rated more remarkable than the fact that we are still far from having a majority...
Again, you cite the case of General Dyer's dispersing a prohibited meeting by firing into the crowd; but you do NOT mention that General Dyer was relieved of his appointment in consequence, and died a broken man-in spite of the fact that many of those best able to judge feel that, if he had not taken his drastic action, once again India would have been torn end to end in mutiny and civil...
Douglas MacArthur's daily communiques to the War Department have been eloquent in their terseness. Although he has made five major generals and 18 brigadier generals since the war started, he has not thought it necessary in several instances to cite the deeds which prompted the promotions, nor has he taken time to reveal his staff's working structure. Departmental sources believe that Major General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, 58-year-old cavalry expert, is Douglas MacArthur's second in command. Horseman Wainwright and Brigadier General Albert N. Jones received Distinguished Service Crosses for "extraordinary heroism...
With only two horror cases in six years to cite, SEC's testimony before Congress made Wall Street scream about manufactured bids for more power. Ganson Purcell calls this charge "the obvious resort of anybody who wants to undermine our efforts to perfect the powers we have...
...honest efforts, an attack of this sort, while seeming amusing to sophomoric college pranksters, does real harm to our cause. Serying, or crystal gazing as you would call it, is the world's oldest legitimate science back to the great seer Teiresias and the pharaohs of Egypt. To cite one example to you who doubt our integrity Roger Bacon long ago prophesied the advent of the airplane the automobile and many of the other modern conveniences after he had utilized the "crystal ball...