Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, Bertha, and his daughter, Cherie Coppeliano, went to visit him in the death house. At lunch time, Sheridan told them: "Now, you folks go on uptown and have a nice lunch. When you get back, we'll have a nice talk." Sheridan stared after them as long as his eyes could follow. Then he called a guard...
...palate . . ." Texas' bellowing Tom Connally got in some licks too. "The Senator from Missouri wants a man with striped britches and a silk hat, perhaps," shouted Connally. "Career men are all right in their places, but . . . they get into ruts . . . The career man says, 'I have to go. We have tea at 4 o'clock. I am sorry, but I must go to tea.' They nearly all wear the same kind of clothes . . . Their minds have little grooves in them...
...decision does not balance the loss of China, but it does point the way to a constructive relationship between the Western and the Asian democracies. Some immediate tasks of an anti-Communist democratic grouping would be: retrieving Burma from its present chaos; helping the Indonesians make a go of independence; stopping the economic and political "slide" in the Philippines...
Nozaka's small, sleepy eyes twinkled. "Where workers are to be discharged, we oppose it and they back our struggle whatever their politics. There will be spontaneous wildcat strikes all over Japan all summer-locally led, of course. Workers will slow down. They will come late and go early. They will demand the exact letter of the law of the safety regulations. All these tactics can be very effective. We don't need big strikes or demonstrations if we have enough small ones...
Socialist George Bernard Shaw turned a capital gain in a London auction. After hanging on to a $160 clavichord for 28 years, he let it go for a well-tempered...