Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood from his lung, the doctors said he would play ball again. He sat up in bed and tolerantly described Ruth as a "Baseball Annie," one of an army of hero-worshiping teen-age girls who follow players around. He was kind of puzzled, though: "I don't know what got into that silly honey. Why pick on a nice guy like me?" After a second operation he learned that Ruth wasn't taking things too hard and lost his temper: "She seems to think this is a joke, but I don't. She should be taken...
...imports cost more in terms of sterling. Imports are already cut to the bare essentials. We are more certain that devaluation will increase the cost of imports than we are that it would increase the volume of exports. In the face of the U.S. recession, how do we know we can sell more British goods in the U.S. even if devaluation lowers the dollar price tags? If American domestic prices continue to fall, we would merely have to devalue again. The time to devalue is when U.S. and Continental internal price levels have attained stability...
...Will Never Sign." "I don't know how often I will be able to speak to you in the future," Beran said. "Perhaps very soon you will hear all sorts of things about me from the radio. You may hear that I have made a confession or other things ... Whatever happens, don't believe that I have surrendered . . ." He spoke in a clear, loud voice, tense with emotion. "I come to you and swear to you that I will never sign an agreement that violates the laws of the church...
...know what you expect of me," he went on softly. "You can imagine what I would say and how I would say it. But I won't say it because I don't want this fine old monastery to be persecuted...
...Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain conclusions drawn from facts, "but I did not know she planned to ban it entirely." Said she: "It's my own affair and I do not wish to answer questions about...