Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courage, found arms, the hope of democratic freedom and the will to resist-is the overriding element in the situation. . . . France is finding herself. . . . [She] will force to the front the voices which can express that faith and the men who can fight for it. It was this emotional content in the whole situation . . . which our official policy never seemed to appreciate...
...making hexamine for the new explosive, key trick was to turn out the chemical in a special grade. The size of the granules had to be changed from earlier manufacture; moisture content and other properties also had to be changed and closely governed in manufacture...
...Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united France...
Beethoven and Eliot. Readers familiar with the great "last quartets" of Beethoven will suspect that Eliot derived from them his title, much of his form, elements of his tone and content. They will almost certainly be right, for no other works in chamber music fit the parallel. Both Beethoven and Eliot are working with the most difficult and quintessential of all materials for art: the substance of mystical experience. Both, in the effort to translate it into art, have strained traditional forms and created new ones. Both use motif, refrain, counterpoint, contrasts both violent and subtle, the normal coinage...
After all is said & done, what American would want to think of our leader as a "Superman". . .? We'll be content to leave those attributes to comic strips and Der Führer. . . . Our President is a man, a mere mortal, whose "chickens come home to roost." We don't expect him to be infallible...