Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans and with their warm, friendly interest in our country and the work we were doing. The photograph which you have published recently is one more proof of this interest and we are most appreciative of it. We would like, however, to add a few words of comment and to explain that we are not "just ourselves," as your caption seems to imply, but represent the Polish women who had taken part in this war alongside of their men ever since Sept...
...have learned a great deal already during the past few weeks and, frankly, we hope to learn some thing more than where to buy lipsticks and how to cross legs for the American photographers. We do not think lipsticks are important enough to be a subject of comment of the American press. More important to us are the Enfield rifles we learned to shoot, and the hand grenades we learned to throw...
Last week Prime Minister Churchill, in parliamentary and much, much more tactful language, made a similar comment. He talked the House of Commons out of extending two overseas decorations to home services, declaring that he declined to "expand, inflate or dilute the currency" of Britain's medals. Leave that to the Germans, he said, who created 80 decorations in the last war and diluted the Iron Cross until it had little value except to "Herr Hitler, who, it is alleged, gave it to himself some time later." Tactfully Mr. Churchill refrained from mentioning...
...years and 10,000 miles away." But the onetime "brilliant spokesman of liberalism" has been "running neck and neck with general Republican opposition, calling upon the courts to liquidate the New Deal and upon the stars to view the general iniquity in Washington." Columnist Fisher finds Lippmann's "comment on world affairs comes from a background of study and close observance which scarcely any contemporary journalist can touch" . . . but three months before Pearl Harbor he was regarding a large U.S. Army as "a definite inconvenience...
...longer could the War Department keep its secret from the public. At first War Secretary Stimson gruffly refused to comment. ("I can't ask for a report on what every soldier says when he comes back. ) But before the day ended the old Secretary's bluff was called and the Army and Navy jointly acknowledged that Sergeant Foisie was more than right. On the night of July 10-11 U.S. airborne troops had "received antiaircraft fire from enemy ground forces and from friendly naval and ground forces with losses of 23 aircraft [C-47s] and 410 personnel...