Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That is really too remote to comment upon. But as far as my personal feelings are concerned, I think he should be elected by the assembly. Experience has shown that prime ministers or presidents elected by universal suffrage do not truly represent the aspirations of the people...
Castigating Russians. Inevitably, Lovell has become best known to the public for his tracking exploits, and he is usually called upon to comment on all significant missions and probes. He obviously enjoys his role of space expert and he has been outspokenly frank-handing out unreserved praise for both Russian and U.S. space achievements while bluntly criticizing what he considers misguided efforts. In 1962 he violently opposed the U.S. hydrogen-bomb explosion in space over the Pacific, and has spoken out against a communications experiment that placed a band of metallic needles in orbit. In both cases he was convinced...
...before Ernest, then 18, got to Europe as an ambulance driver on the Italian front). On one occasion, Papa boasted drunkenly that he had sired a child by an African bride whom he had acquired on a safari (possibly true). What does ring completely true is Hemingway's comment in 1948 about Marlene Dietrich: "The thing about the Kraut and me is that we have been in love since 1934 . . . but we've never been to bed. Victims of unsynchronized passion...
...Richard Bereza's comment that people "who aren't quite as capable are better able to endure the boredom of military life" is an ignorant affront to U.S. armed forces. I doubt that Bereza would be alive to say this were it not for the professional military men who led our civilian soldiers with magnificent brilliance in World...
...four economists, most of whom hold doctorates and speak three or four languages, piece together all the items they can find on a company being surveyed, spend up to six months preparing a preliminary report. When this work is done, they take their findings to the company for comment-and usually hit so close that the company is impressed enough to cooperate. Says Hungarian-born Deputy Director Anthony de Jasay: "We fill in our tables until just a few elements are missing, like a jigsaw puzzle. The companies feel almost morally obliged to furnish the remaining pieces...