Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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READ YOUR AUG. 4 PRESS STORY AND WOULD LIKE MAKE ONE CORRECTION: FIRST MEN IN BAGHDAD WERE TWO, STAN CARTER AND MYSELF. WHEN WE ARRIVED ON IRAQI MILITARY PLANE FROM DAMASCUS, OFFICERS AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT DIDN'T KNOW WHO WE WERE. THEY SEEMED TO THINK WE WERE EITHER AMERICAN OFFICERS OR MOON MEN. I WAS FIRST MAN TO INTERVIEW BRIGADIER EL-KASSIM...
After that the presidential party pulled out, left Anderson to tell the trip's story to the reporters (and that done, to pay a courtesy call on Admiral Rickover). Said he: "You know I am a little dazed by all this." But it was not only Anderson, but the newsmen, the Navy, the nation, the world that was more than a little dazed...
...police are afraid. They know Kierdorf's men are bigger than they are. Oh yes, they are too. I'd ask them for help-I've known most of the people around here most of my life-and they'd say, "We can't enter a labor dispute." It shakes your confidence in democracy...
...struck down by atom sickness, the worst damage appears psychological. Many of them try to conceal their identities because they often find themselves shunned. Says one Japanese bitterly: "People are afraid of us. They think we are going to fall sick and become a burden, or contaminate them. We know now how lepers feel." In a public-opinion poll, 40% of Japanese questioned said they would not marry a bomb survivor; 80% of those who would said they would refuse to have children. But the most gnawing fear of the survivors was expressed by one of them: "Each morning when...
...audience was most enthusiastic, and obliged Biggs to play two encores. Why are musicians so reluctant to announce the titles of encores? Critics are expected to know every piece ever written, but the public is not. A number of people asked me afterwards what the encores were. For others who are curious, the first encore was William Byrd's Pavane for the Earl of Salisbury; the second was Claude Daquin's Noel No. 10, the only fine piece from his collection of twelve noels, each one a theme and variations. Please, Mr. Biggs, more variety and fewer variations...