Word: foe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peak of Chomolhari in the Himalayas, was already a famed Arctic explorer), because he had a sense of humor, and because he kept himself busy plaguing the Japs. Writes Chapman: "[The jungle] provides any amount of fresh water, and unlimited cover for friend as well as foe . . . It is the attitude of mind that determines whether you go under or survive . . . The jungle itself is neutral...
...little like Tom Sawyer drawing a line in the dust with his bare toe and "dassing" his foe to step over...
Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, potent Roman Catholic orator who has struck many a telling blow in the spiritual battle of East & West, showed little respect for his chief ideological foe. "Stalin," said Sheen, "is possibly the most stupid politician in the history of the world...
...high commissioner's mufti, has been firm and unruffled as British military governor. Scholarly, 62-year-old Andre François-Poncet, Ambassador to Berlin from 1931 to 1938, is one of those surprisingly numerous Frenchmen who want Germany as a good neighbor rather than as a chained foe. He has written: "With a little imagination, a little courage and good will, the problem of Germany can be solved. He who risks nothing wins nothing...
...life for more than half a century. At 19, he killed a Japanese policeman in Korea, served several years in prison. Later Kim Koo went into exile in China, further enhanced his reputation both as an intense Korean nationalist and ruthless political terrorist: To friend & foe alike, he became known as "The Tiger...