Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good dinner will put any man in a conciliatory frame of mind. A bad one will make him quarrelsome and disputatious. How men eat definitely influences their judgment as well as their digestion. Empires can be built or destroyed at the dinner table. Peace in our time can well depend upon whether we soothe or insult the gastronomic tastes of our guests...
Anthony Eden was asked in the House of Commons: "Would it be the duty of a British soldier who seeks Hitler to shoot him or try to bring him back alive?" Replied Mr. Eden: "I am very content to leave that to the judgment of any British soldier...
...Rest of the List. For the rest of its job, Ordnance could claim more than a passing grade. It had the best rifle in the world-the Garand (which the riflewise Marine Corps had originally rejected after exhaustive tests, thus proving that there is more than one judgment to be made about any weapon). It had been first on the field with the bazooka...
With averted, shame-filled eyes his fellow Frenchmen listened. Swiftly the three judges and 24 jurors, mostly men of the Resistance, rendered their judgment: for Traitor Esteva not death but life imprisonment, confiscation of his possessions. loss of his five stars...
Elsa Maxwell, who never wears jewels at the smartly publicized parties she gives at others' expense, was judged in Manhattan's City Court to owe a $2,980.74 jewelry bill, ordered to fork over the $996.47 in her checking account to be applied against the judgment. Elsa said that she had helped sell a $30,000 emerald to Cinema Producer Jack Warner, took the $2,980.74 in jewelry instead of a commission. "There are dozens of society women," she said, "who sell jewels on commission...