Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comment ça va? While the smoke from the guns curled up into the haze, Henri Hoppenot, De Gaulle's representative in the U.S., introduced his chief to the State Department's Protocol Chief George T. Summerlin. The three men walked over to a little group of top French and U.S. military men. "Very glad," said De Gaulle, in his rehearsed English, stiffly shaking General Marshall's hand. He passed on to General Arnold, Admiral King, and Lieut...
...Brushed off questions about De Gaulle, Finland and foreign policy, but added a third word to his usual dismissing phrase. Said he: "No comment...
...that the aptitude test was hard. "I didn't do anything flashy," she said, "but I guess I got by." After the three hours' grilling in the boiler-room temperature of Cobb Hall, Sunny's slightly hennaed hair was still schoolgirlishly neat, but her academic comment was caustic. "I can't understand," she said, "why the University of Chicago gives tests like this. They're poorly made up, if you know what I mean, and I don't think they show what kind of a mind you have, though I guess that...
Thanks for the extra-special airmail service on the "Invasion" issue. I've heard quite a few fellows comment with something such as, "Damned nice of them, huh?" Certainly such extra services as these constitute one of the factors of TIME'S success formula...
...with his subject, in part to his clearly thought-out philosophic position (he was Harvard-trained under Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking), which strengthens his thinking without getting in the way of his writing, in part to a gift for phrase typified by Stolberg's famed comment on NRA: "So far the New Deal has accomplished nothing that might not have been done better by an earthquake. A first-rate earthquake from coast to coast could have reestablished scarcity much more effectively . . . with far more speed and far less noise than the New Deal...