Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Storm of the Bastille . .." Next day, Palmiro Togliatti had the last word. It was a menacing word, one that indicated that the Reds might not be content to stop at parliamentary fisticuffs. Said he: "The aim of the new constitution was and is creation of a new order in the Italian state ... It is a problem which must inevitably be solved on the basis of force, of relation of material force . . . It is impossible to disarm an insurrection when it springs from political or class necessity. Sans-culottes* found arms to storm the Bastille and conquer proud Versailles . . . They...
...festivities has varied greatly. A chronicle tells us that for the first exercises "nine Bachelours, the Governour, the Magistrates, and Ministers from all parts, with all sorts of scholars were present, and did hear their exercises. Then having dined together in Commons, they sang a Psalm and were well content." This note of austerity was lost toward the end of the Seventeenth Century, as the Harvard Commencement Day became a general State holiday...
...quite content that you should "own" the atomic bomb, kill the ump, boo the Dodgers and eat more steak than the unfortunates without your borders, but your mode of posing it in international magazines is (we think) not the very best way to win friends and influence people...
Since 1931, when Cornelius McGillicuddy had his last pennant-winning wonder boys, the Philadelphia Athletics had been a consistent team: the most weak-kneed in the American League. The man the baseball writers once considered a genius came to be regarded as a quaint old character content with teams so cheap that they made a profit even when they finished in the cellar...
After a long chat with a suburban matron of our acquaintance who does content analysis, we agreed that the similarity between The New Yorker and this so-called Lampoon is more than coincidental--it seems to be premeditated. The matron thought the cartoons an especially fine indication of the imitation and though we feel handicapped trying to describe drawings that are better appreciated visually, we can say that the resemblances are striking and the technique, little short of flawless...