Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to try to get it, and the Germans are used to leadership. If you don't give it to them, then they will follow ours, even if they don't like us. Then you'll get mad, but it will be your own fault...
Some seemed sincerely thankful that the Americans had arrived. Said a merchant prince to two visiting Americans: the Greater East Asia Sphere had long been a mockery. Critical shortages of materials had begun to wreck the empire a year ago. It was all the military's fault. The public expected Tojo and other war criminals to be tried. When Saipan fell, the people knew the war was lost. Those who had been in the U.S. (including the merchant prince) knew it was hopeless when it started. The merchant poured three drinks and toasted the Americans: "To your safe arrival...
China and Russia will be co-owners of the two Manchurian railroads-the Chinese Eastern and the South Manchurian, both built by Russia. (Stalin remarked to Soong: "We haven't had much use of them." Soong's reply: "That wasn't our fault; we didn't guarantee you against the Japs.") Russian soldiers may not use the railroads except to fight Japan. Railway guards will be exclusively Chinese...
...this particular victim of Holly wood's wonderful ways happens to be 1) intelligent, 2) candid, 3) now free to talk - her long-term contract with Warner has just expired ("thank God") - Miss Fitzgerald has finally explained all. Any Hollywoodenhead would insist that it was entirely her own fault, and, in a measure, she would cheerfully agree...
With three games left to play the Crimson's record now stands at five wins and three defeats. But gazing at the scorebook, the record is not so good as it may look. The team has a low batting average of .188. The greatest fault is the failure to hit in the pinches; in the second Holy Cross game the Stahlmen got three men on base with no one out but couldn't produce a run. Don Swegan is pacing the batters with a better than average mark of .358. Herb Eckenroth follows him with a percentage...