Word: markedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...resistance is Rainer Hildebrandt, a 34-year-old German free-lance writer. Sitting in his faded Berlin apartment, Hildebrandt last week explained his purpose: "The Russians will see an F and know that people still have courage to speak up for human decency. German Spitzel [informers] will find the mark on their homes and will wonder whether the Red arm of the MVD is really long enough to protect them. Ordinary citizens, seeing an F, will know they are not alone, that there is more to be done against inhumanity than simply to cower and grovel...
...have been telecast and have talked briefly about the war, the postwar world, General Eisenhower, and Crusade itself. To date, they have included: General George C. Marshall, General Omar Bradley, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, General Lucius D. Clay, ECA head Paul G. Hoffman, Lieut. General James Doolittle, General Mark Clark. Another guest speaker was Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who said, in part...
...33rd degree is purely honorary. Harry Truman is the first President to receive the 33rd degree (Warren G. Harding was named, but died before going through the ceremony). Among the 4,200 honorary 33rd degree Masons: Generals Douglas MacArthur, Mark Clark and Jimmy Doolittle, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton, Publisher Roy Howard...
...cubbyhole at Yankee Stadium, Casey reclined dreamily upon a sofa, his short, crooked legs crossed, his gnarled hands clasped behind his head. "Best ball club I ever had," he kept repeating softly, as though he liked the sound of the words. Last week, at the season's halfway mark, his New York Yankees were leading the American League by six games...
...with a zest that makes his pages effervesce 30 years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay of the assorted pinks and reds who once thrilled to his lambastings of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, but were forced to turn...