Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sneered the Daily Mirror's Columnist Cassandra: "Of all the wibbly-wobblers at the White House, President Eisenhower is doing his best to break the records for indecision . . . General Eisenhower just doesn't know his own mind-which maybe is just as well...
...lead them across the border, Sweazey recommends personal friendship without the usual treatment of religion as an embarrassing subject. As the result of such tiptoeing, "many Jews know only a grotesque caricature of Christianity, compounded of a three-headed divinity, salvation by being dipped in blood, a slighting of rationality and ethics, and a dependence on gross wonders." As Jews and Christians become closer friends, Chairman Sweazey hopes, "Christ will become better known and loved on both sides...
Another theory is that the Sputniks' Geiger tubes were blacked out near apogee by Van Allen radiation, and that the Russian scientists did not know how to interpret this odd behavior. The live dog carried in Sputnik II died in about a week, but the Russians have not told whether it was affected by radiation sickness. Very likely they do not know...
...March, down a fortnight later to 45⅛. Nobody had the courage to ask management for an explanation, until Peter spoke up: "Why did General Development stock rise so fast and then drop so fast?" President Frank Mackle pleaded embarrassed ignorance: "Son, I don't know too much about the stock market. It goes up and down. My son asked me the same question, and I couldn't answer...
...Mithridates, he died old," sang A. E. Housman in A Shropshire Lad-leaving it largely up to his readers to know who Mithradates was and why his longevity was worthy of note. In this book, able and highly readable, Historian Alfred (Julius Caesar) Duggan writes the first full-dress account of Mithradates' amazing life. Deftly stitched together from sundry classical sources (Plutarch, Appian, Strabo), King of Pontus is not only an excellent piece of history but a first-rate tale of war and adventure whose hero is never more heroic than in the closing years of a long...