Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill out on a straight 8-to-5 party vote. Vermont's mild George Aiken commented bitterly: "Might makes right." To Ohio's Robert A. Taft it was "the most highhanded" committee procedure he had ever seen...
Bavaria's countryside, its soft-rolling hills and gabled farmhouses blanketed by late snow, looked as snug and changeless as ever. Only at a few points along main roads did little, neatly painted buildings strike an odd note: U.S. snack bars, complete with hamburger, jukebox and all the refined necessities of American life. They reminded you that this is, in a sense, America's Bavaria...
...Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered the Führer: "[Sancho Davila] is stupidity personified . . . the greatest fool ever to come to my headquarters...
...Kenyon," where 120 students lived, was the first permanent building that Kenyon College had ever had. Rutherford B. Hayes (Class of 1842) was among the undergraduates who had roomed there. Over the years, Kenyon had grown up around it, a distinguished small men's college (700 students) with an Episcopal and literary tradition (its best-known professor nowadays: Critic John Crowe Ransom...
...changed the hutukhtu's mind and brought him to Baltimore was Owen Lattimore, director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Asia Specialist Lattimore had met him once in China, and had been corresponding with him ever since...