Word: dictums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astonishing number of congressional Republicans were openly delighted to see Adams squirm. Some had been offended when he left them dangling at the other end of a dead telephone. Some resented the fact that he had pursued the President's dictum that the White House should work with Congress through the leadership; they felt that as a result, Adams had locked them out of the White House. Then there were the old-line Taft-men. "That sonofabitch," said one bitterly. "He was one of those who went down to Texas and planted that flag-'Thou Shalt Not Steal...
...Dictum & Dry Rot. In 1920, with the backing of Ralph Pulitzer, who became the World's publisher on his father's death in 1911, Swope knocked out a few partitions to make himself a suitably imposing office, brought in the first rugs ever seen on the twelfth floor of the World building on Park Row, and hung on the door a brand-new title of his own devising: Executive Editor...
...this appears like little more than a listing of support for George Bernard Shaw's famous dictum, "Nothing is ever done unless people will be killed if it is not done." Unfortunately this is to a large extent true. The current reevaluation of the American school system, such as it is, is attributable mainly to the fear of Russian military power...
Noting the signs and wondering how long Khrushchev dared avoid "tidying up" his internal situation, Columnist Joseph Alsop last week quoted a recent dictum of that old student of the Soviet system, former Ambassador George Kennan: "In the Soviet Union today there are just too damned many people who have been left unmurdered...
...fatal conclusion. Brando, his hair bleached for the occasion, plays a sensitive German lieutenant who hates killing, but justifies it as the only way to bring lasting peace to Europe. He resists the attempts of his superior officer (Maximilian Schell) to make him "a creative soldier"; resists the military dictum that "when you become a soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite all the corpses "nothing really changes"; resists the Frenchwoman (Liliane Montevecchi) who pleads with him to desert because "there never was anything for you to fight for"; resists...