Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ultimate Goal. The Cowles view of world opinion rejects the argument that recognition of Communist China would go too far in making Communism respectable in Asia. Said the Des Moines Tribune in January 1951, shortly after the Red Chinese intervened in Korea: "Yes, we know that Communist China is an aggressor, a violator of the United Nations Charter . . . But it is the government of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese land and people. We might as well recognize this fact. And if we want to tell Mao Tse-tung he is a bad boy ... we shall have to recognize...
...girls know so little about racing yet. We are thankful that the very famous 'Hotspur' has agreed to come and tell us his secrets." A few days ago these frightfully polite words, rich with Britain's broadest bazaar-opening vowels, issued from blonde Dair Marr, 17, as she introduced Ewr Curling, the Daily Telegraph's horse expert, to 30 of the finest blooded fillies in London. Dair & Co. had cause to hear a betting and breeding lecture. As students at the Cygnets House, the most exclusive finishing school in England, they must learn to "talk politics...
...want my girls to know everything," says Mrs. O'Mahony. "My aim is utter perfection." At least in principle, Cygnets learn to discuss abstract art, ask a bishop how he takes his tea, change a diaper, sew up a ball gown, open a bazaar, cook a banquet and, should such perfection overpower onlookers, give first aid. It is assumed that Cygnets will marry, and one lecture tells the girls "How to care for a tired husband fretful after a nasty day at the office...
...many others into Government service. He has achieved the status of a de luxe one-man employment agency. "There is a guy waiting outside right now," he told a recent visitor, "who is president of a multimillion-dollar company. He's thinking of leaving, and wants to know if I've heard of anything...
...achievement of many a year. It bears out the feeling Kazantzakis once expressed, in describing a form of spiritual conversion he underwent during a solitary retreat in the mountains: "Since then I have felt ashamed to commit any vulgar act, to lie, to be overcome by fears, because I know that I also have a great responsibility in the progress of the world. I work and think now with certainty, for I know that my contribution, because it follows the profound depths of the universe, will not go lost...