Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are certain leaders in the government of that great country who are exceedingly anxious to have an under standing with us. I'll spend my time in the next four years to reach an under standing on a basis that peace is possible with all nations. I know it can be done." The President's remark may have been meant to raise hopes. What it did was raise questions. Was there "some new sceneshifting going on behind the Iron Curtain? Who were the "certain leaders" in Russia who wanted to end the Cold war? The President...
...official who should know, if any outsider does, which Russian leaders are friendly to the Western powers is U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Walter Bedell Smith. This week, after "Beedle" Smith had visited the White House and asked President Truman to let him retire (he has ulcers), he said to reporters...
...Grand Design is one of those books that can be read by itself, as a slow movement of a symphony can be played by itself, but will be best understood by those who know what went on before it. With The Grand Design, Dos Passes returns to a series of novels he began ten years...
Invitation to a Voyage. The correspondence began amiably enough: after kicking young E. M. Forster in the teeth ("He sucks his dummy-you know, those child's comforters-long after his age"), Lawrence got down to business. "There must be a revolution . . . nationalizing of all industries . . . communications . . . land-in one fell blow." After that, man could really start "the adventure into the unexplored, the woman," and "fight clear to his own basic, primal being." Lawrence begged his new friend Russell to be a kind and tolerant listener...
...blood-consciousness which exists in us independently of the ordinary mental consciousness . . . If a lizard falls on the breast of a pregnant woman, then the blood-being of the lizard passes with a shock into the blood-being of the woman, and is transferred to the fetus . . . Do you know what science says about these things...