Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive crossing of the Rhine in the Wesel sector was a fact, and jubilant Winston Churchill stood on the west bank exclaiming repeatedly to Ike: "My dear General, the German is whipped. We've got him. He is all through." But sweeter, perhaps, to Eisenhower, was the fervent comment of Field Marshal Brooke, Churchill's army chief of staff: ''Thank God, Ike, you stuck by your plan. You were completely right . . . Thank God, you stuck by your guns...
...Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word of His teachings brought to people who heard them from afar...
Post-game comment was restrained; most writers attributed the Crimson victory to a hard charging line and magnificent teamwork...
...list of these guests is a striking comment on the interest which the profession has in the fellowships. Publishers like Arthur Sulzberger, Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. Helen Reid, Marshall Field, John and Gardner Cowles have all come to Cambridge. John Dos Passos, Bernard DeVoto, and Lewis Mumford have represented authors; working correspondents like William Shirer, John Gunther, Arthur Krock, and Vincent Sheean keep the vacationing newsmen up to date...
...purpose of this book is to present an objective view of the case, the authors could obviously not refrain from unconsciously injecting their own judgments. Professor Morgan writes: "Against a masterful and none too scrupulous prosecution was opposed a hopelessly mismanaged defense before a stupid trial judge." This comment is part of the chapter devoted to the so-called Dedham Trial, which is followed by a very detailed examination of the legal controversy which raged after the conviction of the defendants. The unofficial part of this battle centered around articles written by Justice (then Professor) Felix Frankfurter of the Harvard...