Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the pressure of [the NATO meeting] prevented my writing before to express my very great appreciation of the way in which the TIME story was handled. If there is a fault, it is that the comments about myself are overgenerous, and that is a fault which I find no difficulty in forgiving...
...reasonably sincere Catholic, I must admit that your Dec. 23 article on holy hucksters certainly hit home. It is an unfortunate fact that the manufacturers and distributors of pseudoreligious trinkets find ready prey among many gullible Catholics. The church is strongly in favor of the use of rosaries, medals, and such aids in the worship of God, but the abuse of this custom, as practiced by these unscrupulous individuals, constitutes a grave offense against everything the church stands...
...would neither go into the streets against the demonstrators nor join with them. Like other regular army units, they believed that all that was at stake was a simple misunderstanding between the authority of the Bolshevik regime and that of the Constituent Assembly. The soldiers hoped both bodies could find a way of uniting peacefully. So did the 40 delegates of the "Left" Social Revolutionaries who had decided to collaborate with the Bolsheviks. Lenin was later to describe them as "little fools...
...different instruments." His view of applause for a performance? "What would you suggest as an alternative to applause? Supposing we had no applause? Then what? I can't understand-after one's heard beautiful music, then you make this noise. But I can't find an alternative...
...acute observation about the Indians of the high Andes. "The Indians," he wrote, "are red-blooded to an extreme degree, from whence they derive their excessive heat, as borne out by the fact that if in the time of greatest cold one touches their hand, one will always find heat in it, amazingly." In Natural History, Anthropologist Marschall T. Newman explains the physiological reasons for the Indians' "excessive heat...