Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans, who thought they were in the know before Nov. 2, had a variety of explanations for what hit them. Most of them seemed to add up to the fact that they, themselves, were to blame...
...Victory in 1950." Western Europe had its own reasons for the way it felt. Very few people had any grudge against Tom Dewey. A lot of Europeans were just like Premier Themistocles Sophoulis in Athens,-who said: "Somehow I feel I know President Truman. Governor Dewey might have been equally good, but I would have to learn that first." In Switzerland the eminent Gazette de Lausanne decided that "the victory of Truman is really the victory of Marshall...
Thanks to the Guardia, Somoza can boast: "I know every man in Nicaragua and what he represents." Thanks also to the Guardia, for twelve years he has owned and operated his little country (pop. 1,108,800), with its tiny upper class and sandaled proletariat...
...fell out with the dictator in 1944. Nicaragua, Pasos felt, could do with a little more democracy; after a time the Liberals called a convention to talk about it. Some of the cautious ones went to Tacho to get his views. They got them. "Tell Carlos Pasos that I know that twice last night at the home of Castro Wassmer he read the speech he has prepared, and if he insists on reading it at the convention, let him not forget to come armed. I am not the man to let myself be overthrown by speeches. There'll certainly...
Once a Nicaraguan Conservative, who had been under house arrest for two months on Tacho's order, charged up to the general at a party and roared: "I want to know why you ordered my house arrest!" Said Somoza, grinning: "I did it to please your wife. She told me she couldn't keep you home nights...