Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lombardo persisted. "The Marshall Plan is an encouragement of production. . . ." The lion-dominated crowd chanted its dissent : "Your speech is written with Dunn's fountain pen."* Cried one delegate: "Traitor! The Marshall Plan is an American attempt to capture markets and throw European workers into unemployment...
...great popular front [must be] ready to solve what to harassed village women are vital problems-such small things as the position of the village fountain or the location and measurement of the village washing place. When a woman is head over heels in work, help her get her children to school, call a doctor when someone falls ill. Forget wordy propaganda. . . . Never mention Communism...
...Sudan, whose sandy hair is thinning now, tells about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...
...says McNeill, he never substantially altered his doctrine thereafter. An ardent humanist before what he called his "sudden conversion" to Protestantism, he carried his love of truth for its own sake over into his religious teaching: "If we hold that the Spirit of God is the one fountain of truth, we shall neither reject nor despise the truth itself, wherever it appears, unless we wish to be contemptuous of the Spirit of God." Of his central doctrinal position he wrote: "Predestination we call the eternal decree of God by which He has determined with Himself what He would have...
...presence or lack of poetry," observed U.N. Delegate Sir Alexander Cadogan before the Academy of American Poets, "is a touchstone of the freedom or servility of a particular political system." He noted happily that "in both our countries today ... the old fountain of poetry is still flowing freely...