Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vitsi Mountains (TIME, Oct. 11). The Greek army, which had heroically sustained casualties up to 13% in the Grammos operation, had little appetite for the Vitsi campaign. The guerrillas had a fresh, seemingly unlimited supply of land mines which they were using to the full; World War II veterans know what intensive mining does to a soldier's morale. Last month the Greek government sent an S.O.S. to Washington. Its gist: there are actually more guerrillas in Greece now than when the U.S. first started giving aid; continued U.S. aid is necessary...
...lone Catholic school that catered to the Irish and ignored the French. A bilingual college would provide for both. As its founder, and the first Bishop of Bytown, Monsignor Joseph Eugene Bruno Guigues, put it: "These young men living and growing up together would soon come to know and to esteem each other, and while preserving their national idiosyncrasies, would learn to wage side by side the good fight for God and country...
...fellow educators gave him a respectful hearing-and a thorough looking-over. Said the president of a state university: "An astute, middle of the road speech, just the kind Ike's trustees and colleagues wanted to hear. Ike obviously doesn't know a good goddam about education-but then, who does...
...have to blindfold you.' Polk replied: 'I've no objection; go ahead.' " Then Polk's hands & feet were bound. "We continued rowing out to sea. Suddenly, I heard a shot. I jumped up, saw Polk fall forward on his knees . . ." Staktopoulos did not know why he wasn't shot too. He was put ashore and told to get his mother to send Polk's identity card to police. Eventually, the handwriting led the cops to the mother...
...average man doesn't know much about psychiatry, but he knows what he dislikes and suspects about it. One psychiatrist, paraphrasing Artemus Ward, has said of his specialty: "In no other field of medical knowledge does the average man know so many things that...