Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than three years, more than 3,000 natives were assassinated because of simple suspicion of being "bandits." In Nicaragua the U. S. Government wish to get hold of certain rights in order to construct another transoceanic canal in the near future in detriment of the Nigaraguan freedom. A few mean politicians will transact with your Government and then the State Department sends soldiers to back the government headed by these politicians resulting from your influence. In consequence, a revolution starts, and then you call it a "bunch of bandits...
...education of our officers to administer and lead armies does not mean that military men are seeking to provoke hostilities. Rather it is a continuation of the only course that a self-respecting nation can pursue. So inoffensive are our purposes and our manners that now, as always, our country suffers from a reputation and a consciousness of weakness...
This does not mean, however, that the national debt of France has been reduced in the same proportion as its debt to the Bank of France, for some of the amount was only canceled against new conversion bonds subscribed by the French public, which still remain a governmental liability. However, the position of the Bank, which last year was in sore straits, is much improved; for, meantime it has increased its gold reserves to $800,000,000 and holds nearly $1,000,000,000 in foreign currencies, which represents credit transactions made possible by the repatriation of French capital...
...last week, detectives who followed an automobile from Irvington, N. J., † to Newark, where the men in it passed several packages to a woman in a window in a mean street; and police who later raided the so-called Peerless Blade Corporation's factory in Irvington, found the Gillette Co.'s smallest, most serious legend had indeed been defied, grossly. In the Peerless factory they found many hundreds of thousands of counterfeit safety razor blades, modeled on the Gillette design, ready to be wrapped in tasteful green wrappers with the handsome portrait and the two legends...
...said Mrs. Coolidge, "I didn't mean they came by special pouch." "You implied it," said the President...