Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Try. Joe Curran's game had started weeks ago. To Joe's porkchop demands his Communist associates had added some ideological parsley. It was high time "to halt the drive of shipowners . . . towards a new and more devastating world war." So Joe said blithely: "Hit the bricks...
In the hands of the Marxist group the future course of the N.M.U. is unchartable. The Marxist members of the office were ready to retreat last week, knowing that a strike against U.S. ships now would rouse the resentment of the world. But U.S. ships would not always be carrying...
The liberal and leftish press was in similar full cry. Wrote the New Republic's knowing Washington Correspondent "T.R.B.": Draft men who strike, in peacetime, into the armed services! Is this Russia or Germany?" Screamed New York City's PM: "A dictator's life-and-death power...
With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last...
"We Accuse." John had gone his full length, knowing to a hair what it would be. As he paced his 30-ft.-long office he could look back on his campaign with gleeful satisfaction. Everything had worked out as he had planned it.