Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward the West. On the other hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than the infidel press, so it weaseled. It put its banner headline on a House of Commons debate about a bill to provide analgesia for childbirth: COMMONS BACKS PAIN RELIEF FOR MOTHERS. Then, into column 5, halfway down, it dropped a three-inch story with the noncommittal head...
...making real progress with these people," he assured me. "You know it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. This is no quickie-it may take 10 or 20 years, maybe more. But we're getting there...
...This Bavaria of ours is really a circus," explained Josef Mueller, pulling back his thick, rubbery lips in a wide grin. "Jo" should know. Bavaria's canniest politician, he heads the Christian Social Union, its top party machine, an unwieldy, feud-ridden alliance of anti-Marxists which controls 104 of the provincial Landtag's 180 seats. Jo of course was speaking not of Fasching but of Bavaria's political life...
...difficulties is that he cannot help conducting himself as if he were governing Michigan. He had this to say about denazification: "There's a lot of talk about whether Nazis who've been in camps should be able to run for office. I don't know-but prison records aren't always bad politically. I knew in the Polish section in Detroit, if you've been to jail a couple of times, it helps a lot if you're running for office! And, for that matter, look at Curley." The governor laughed heartily...
...Good Scare. Serrano wilted again. "Now wait. Let's talk sensibly. You know what reporters are. Absolute misunderstanding. I had no intention of insulting our good friend Sancho . . ." The stern señors merely bowed and turned to go. At the threshold they warned: "Remember. We give you 24 hours...