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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...imperial announcement of Japan's surrender: "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." The British exaggerate in the same direction, indulging in what grammarians call meiosis-understatement. It was an American (born in Wales), however, Henry Stanley, who produced the wonderfully meiotic: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A World of Exaggeration! | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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