Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading about Russia's pigboat fleet, I considered it a welcome change to know that Uncle Sam is finally doing something about the threat of enemy subs. Hurrah for Rear Admiral Thach and his men of the Navy's ASW (antisubmarine warfare) [Sept. 1]. Maybe now the Navy will show the public that they can do more than just eat good chow and shoot craps...
...know what it's like in the Yukon wild when it's sixty-nine below; When the ice-worms wriggle their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow...
...that led down the road to World War II. And inferentially, he warned the U.S. not to be surprised to find the Armed Forces fighting to defend Quemoy-not for the rocky real estate but for the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive purposes. "I know something about . . . war," said Dwight Eisenhower, in a nationwide radio-TV speech, and he predicted an inevitable tragedy "if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and the weak...
Washington was obviously ready to negotiate, but it wanted the world to know what the terms would...
...hang around Schoenhof's in the daytime and well-lit Wigg windows at night (in this sublimating summer age), who scrawl bits of free verse on toilet paper tissue and pursue the Muse enthusiastically. Like the grimy fellow who whispered over his Haffenreffer malt liquor: "How could James know about life? You heard about the bicycle accident he had when he was young? Well...