Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss. It was-a humble-talking Louis Johnson who moved into Henry Stimson's old office and planted his big feet under a desk once used by Black Jack Pershing. "Golly, we need help," he told his well-wishers. "Please feel free to give me some advice...
...give up my bad temper. I'll not give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices . . . the very foundation of my strength and vigour...
...Give me fella kai-kai enough along...
...Little woman, give me your little paw," said the dying Goethe to his daughter-in-law. Had these been his last words, the great Johann Wolfgang might today seem more human and approachable than generations of followers have made him out to be. Unfortunately he said later: "Open the blind of the other window, so that more light may come in!" This statement (abbreviated to the more impressive command: "More light!") has become Goethe's epitaph, supposedly expressing his yearning that greater illumination might come to the hearts of men. Somewhere along the road the "little paw" has been...
Lacking sufficient quantities of Compound E, the group initiated experimental treatments which, it was believed, should stimulate the patient's hormones to give off Compound E. He said that their efforts had met with some success, and that patients had been benefited...