Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most wistful of all the works of art was a sample of Chinese calligraphy which read: "By chance I saw a short purple jade flute; I know not how to summon music therefrom, yet in my memory rises an airy song of love...
...Supreme Court minority of two-the late Justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge-dissented in grave words. They were appalled by the "wide departure from any semblance of trial as we know that institution." Warned Murphy: "[Yamashita's trial] is unworthy of the traditions of our people . . . The high feelings of the moment doubtless will be satisfied. But in the sober afterglow will come the realization of the boundless and dangerous implications . . . No one in a position of command in an army, from sergeant to general, can escape those implications...
...sides had shown a little more trust, cooperation and coolheadedness. "The trouble with us," said Socialist U Kyaw Nyein (who became a cabinet minister at 32), "is that we are all young and inexperienced." Finance Secretary U Kyin echoed him: "We are free but we don't yet know how to rule ourselves...
...feel like ailing, white-haired J. S. Hancock, who had got up from his bed in Alexandria (La.) Veterans Administration Hospital, trekked more than 100 miles to attend. Said Hancock: "When I'm not feeling too keen I can think of these songs and feel better . . . You know a man that will sing these gospel songs...
...city's nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...