Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there had been any real question about which horse was king of Calumet, the question was answered. There had never been any doubt in the mind of wise old Ben Jones. Says he: "Unless he has a bad break, I believe you may see the greatest horse of all time before Citation is through...
...climate in the writings of Karl Marx is suffocating to me. There is something lacking, I don't know what kind of ozone indispensable to my mental respiration." Gide's Return from the U.S.S.R. (his first bestseller, at 67) astounded and infuriated the Communists. He wrote: "I doubt whether in any other country in the world, even Hitler's Germany, thought be less free, more bowed down, more fearful, more vassalized." The faithful, who had seen Gide treated like a hero, were now instructed to regard him as vermin. Soviet Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg...
...Stassen plane landed in Minneapolis, the first returns from the Oregon primary were beginning to come in. Stassen studied them. "It looks like a trend," , he remarked worriedly. It was. At week's end there was no doubt about it. The score: Dewey, 111,657; Stassen, 102,419. There was gloom in Minneapolis. The mighty Stassen had struck...
...learned that Secretary George Marshall did not share Joe Stalin's enthusiasm for a U.S.-Soviet meeting, at least not on the terms that Wallace had laid down. To 8,000 University of California students he cried: "I have no doubt that many of you felt, on reading Stalin's reply, that there was a new ray of hope in the world." Then he bitterly denounced Marshall and the U.S. State Department...
...Brilliant Parades . . ." Any briefing on the state of the world in the spring of '48 must start with the way the vast battle between Communism and democracy is going. There could be no doubt that Communism had suffered setbacks. It had been stopped in Western Europe when it failed to wreck France's economy and lost the Italian elections. It had been slowed down, at least, in Greece, where the Red guerrillas had not scored a major success all winter. It had been, forced to watch while the Marshall Plan became reality...