Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more important for the U.S. to keep a foothold in Western Europe than in Japan. Japan is not a very good place from which to do strategic bombing of possible Russian targets. The U.S. does not owe the Japanese anything. The U.S. had the right, and duty, to disarm them after the war, even though someone else might later cut their throats...
Chile was almost unique. Elsewhere in Latin America, the U.S. still faced the man-sized job of convincing yanqui-baiting nationalists that its heart was pure. Only when latinos came to look on the U.S. as their Good Partner as well as their Good Neighbor could Harry Truman's plan fully succeed...
...inspire respect rather than pity, Molina left out the traditional wounds, a departure that shocked Neiva's orthodox clergy. Nevertheless, the local government decided to exhibit the statue last month at the Bolivarian Eucharistic Congress in Cali. There clerical higher-ups agreed that it was good church art-except for the absence of the wounds. After Molina added them, the statue was blessed by the Archbishop of Cartagena...
Bernard Shaw finished editing and returned a collection of 100-odd Shaw sayings to Cyril Clemens, a temerarious admirer from Kirkwood, Mo. Shaw denied some of the items, okayed others, rewrote a few more. Two he marked "untrue, but good enough to pass." Approved as straight Shaw: "I have solved practically all the pressing questions of our time, but they keep on being propounded as insoluble, just as if I never existed...
...Knife) after seven profitable years among the moviemakers, tried to explain the creative urge: "What gets you all hot about a play? I don't know. A moment of pique, a bellyache, a week of exaltation. Who knows? ... I think most of us live like dogs-in the good sense. We are moved by appetites, helter-skelter, a run here, a sniff there. Like animals...