Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must discuss the abominable injustice that has been meted out to the Jewish people. We must ask . . . are we, because we lived in Germany, also guilty of this diabolic injustice? . . . The phrase 'collective guilt' is an oversimplification. It is a distortion, in fact the kind of distortion that the Nazis tried to pound into us in regard to the Jews; for the Nazis taught that the fact of being a Jew was sufficient to prove guilt...
...Corradi doesn't despise the company of poor peasants. In fact, he is always around. I planted a fig tree here one day. I have held this land for 15 years, and never a tree on it. I want a tree. But Corradi rushed up shouting, 'Who planted this fig tree?' He made me cut it down...
...Pearson and Pegler had little time for such mere jabs from outsiders last week; they were too busy shouting worse names, kicking and gouging each other and yelling "foul." All this, cried Pearson in aggrieved tones, was due to a fact that Pearson unblushingly made public: Pegler had violated a gentlemen's agreement with Pearson not to call each other names any more. The agreement had been made in 1946, said Pearson, when he withdrew a $25,000 libel suit against Pegler who had called him a "miscalled newscaster specializing in falsehoods...
...from Roaring Lion Pegler: "Let bygones be bygones . . . That is my sincere desire ... I do not believe our present course, if pursued, would benefit anyone and I do think we might bring unpleasant attention to the newspaper business, which has been very good to both of us. In fact, I think it is wasteful to devote valuable space to personal controversies between columnists...
...this sense, private organizations working for cultural exchange have had far more success, a fact recognized by both the Army and the State Department. Unavoidably, government connection puts all work of the ISD at a disadvantage from the start. But further, private organizations have generally operated more understandingly and have attracted individuals of higher prestige and greater vision. Few of the personnel in the ISD have been able to convince the Germans or the Austrians that our victory resulted as much from the vitality of a way of life as from material superiority...