Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With sons under, on and over the sea, a daughter spending nine months a year in college and the summer months in the yards, my wife and I now in the yards for three years, I feel qualified to express my opinion...
This desert-fighting phase first brought out in Wavell an urge to express himself Biblically to his officers, a habit he developed to a high degree in his later Middle East campaigns. For a warning against unexpected rainy seasons in desert climates, he drew on Elijah's message to Ahab in I Kings, 18:44 ("Prepare thy chariot and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not"). The danger of floods in Palestine he underlined with a quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance...
...books and countless pamphlets, chiefly on the necessity of leftism, was alleged to have made at a Labor Party rally in Newark, Nottinghamshire. To a question from the crowd, Laski was reported (by the Nottingham Guardian, and later by Lord Beaverbrook's cockalorum conservative London Daily Express) to have replied: "If we cannot get the reforms we desire, we shall not hesitate to use violence, even if it means revolution...
Furiously. Laski served libel writs on the Nottingham Guardian and the London Daily Express...
Socialism v. the Crown. Meanwhile, the Daily Express dug up a non-actionable Laski quote-this time on the Crown. In The Labor Party and the Constitution, Professor Laski wrote: "No one can doubt that the existence of the monarchy makes the realization of socialism a peculiarly difficult adventure...