Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your analysis of the China Nationalist position is a masterpiece. When it is fully realized that the East-West situation in Europe is merely the feint, it may be too late to prevent China from being our "coup de grace" in this world game of chess...
...forth. Dartmouth had an eight-point bulge in the second period, Harvard a similar margin in the third. But Leede won out in the end. He sent the game into overtime at 59-59 with 50 seconds left on two lazy free throws, and then administered the coup de grace with two field goals and three more fouls...
...European Recovery." The Queen's Commissioner arrived, Burgomaster Witschey said grace in Dutch, and dinner proceeded: three stout courses followed by brandy and a speech by the burgomaster. "Thanks to America," he said, "we are able to work." Next day I was shown what that meant...
Seizing the Grimaces. His work does not sing, says Valéry flatly. "Grace and obvious poetry were not his objective." In his drawings, he seemed almost wholly concerned with the truth of what he saw. "His dancers and laundresses were seized in professionally significant attitudes which permitted him to ... analyze various poses never before of interest to painters. He abandoned the beautiful, soft, reclining bodies, the delectable Venuses and Odalisques . . . But he was intent on reconstructing the particular female animal, slave of the dance, the laundry or the street. These more or less deformed bodies he forced into unstable...
...that is evil, but whosoever smiteth thee on thy cheek turn to him the other also' ... I was simply overjoyed . . ." Gandhi once wrote that a living faith in nonviolence "is impossible without a living faith in God. A nonviolent man can do nothing save by the power and grace of God. Without it he won't have the courage to die without anger, without fear and without retaliation...