Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the radio commentators, fearful of the rule in the 1934 Communications Act against profanity, worked hard to keep their language more sedate than the President's. Newspapers, including the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print") boldly printed the initials "S.O.B." in headlines. A phrase long taboo in newspapers had been given a kind of sanction by passing through the President's mouth; S.O.B. had become editorial S.O.P...
...Miss Gillars (he had a wife and three children) and there found that "God favored his love." After that, she echoed his ideas like an empty barrel on a hog caller's porch. Since he was anti-British, anti-Jewish and anti-Roosevelt, she had said some rather hard things on the radio...
...trial in Moscow in 1938 Genrikh Yagoda, hard-boiled head of the OGPU, said: "Citizen judges, I want to tell [you] how a man who spent thirty years in the party and worked a great deal, stumbled [and] fell ... I have committed heinous crimes. I realize this. It is hard to live after such crimes . . . But it is terrible to die with such a stigma. Even from behind bars I would like to see the further flour-ishings of the country I betrayed...
...Vodka. The leak of Cheke's trade secrets made Cheke's own maxims hard going for an embarrassed British Foreign Service. In Washington, the British embassy hastily checked its Chekes safely behind locked doors; in London, Ernest Bevin was "very cross about it," and Marcus Cheke let it be known he was "most angry." As the matter closed, a last-minute addendum was casually spoken by Sir George William Rendel, the British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning...
...Adams died last January, Labor had picked a 33-year-old ex-R.A.F. chaplain and Oxford don named Tom Williams. Tom's father was a Welsh miner who came home permanently crippled from World War I. His mother died when he was three. By scholarships and hard work, Tom fought his way through the Universities of Wales and Oxford, picking up honors as he went. He became a Baptist minister...