Word: goode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frankly. At an Overseas Press Club luncheon, asked if he wished his remarks to stay off the record, he cracked: "How can you be off the record to 500 people?" In his low, Cantabrigian voice, which carried only traces of Asian inflections, he expressed a noncommittal and slightly distant good will to the U.S. India, said Pandit Nehru, does "not wish to forfeit the advantage which our present detachment gives us." He predicted that capitalism and Marxism could not long endure in one world, and that whichever force was better able, morally and materially, "to deliver the goods" would...
...Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom. Said he: "People talk about India's desire for leadership in Asia. We have no desire for leadership . . . [But] whether we want to or not ... we have to play an important role . . . There is no halfway house . . . Either India makes good [or] she just fades away...
...Intourist hotel in a Packard. "We rode," he says, "along a magnificent highway. It had twelve lanes but no automobiles. Just bums along the road. At the hotel they asked how much money I had. I showed them my travelers' checks and they said they were no good. I said the American Express Co. would be very indignant about that because they prided themselves on their travelers' checks. I said I'd telephone collect and the American Express could put them straight, but they said no. They loaned me 100 rubles and offered to give...
...last April, copper-cheeked Margarito Castro planted corn on his hillside acre near Guatemala's volcano-ringed Lake Atitlán and prayed to the Virgin and a host of saints that rain might be plentiful and the harvest good. One morning last fortnight, after a plentiful harvest, Castro loaded the first quintal (100 lbs.) of corn into a dugout canoe and, with his two eldest sons, paddled across the deep-blue lake to the market in Panajachel...
...here for the painter to organize and get the full use of its power. Girls in sweaters with brilliant-colored skin; girls in shorts dressed more like acrobats in the circus than one would ever come across on a Paris street. If I had only seen girls dressed in good taste [in the U.S.] I would never have painted my cyclist series...