Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many a U.S. soldier, Patton approvingly noted the energy of the then well-fed German civilians. ". . . I saw five Germans, three women and two men, re-roofing a house. They were not even waiting for Lend-Lease, as would be the case in several other countries I could mention." Later Patton's regard for Nazi efficiency resulted in his loss of the Third Army command in Bavaria. He persisted to the end that he was right. In his last entry, three months before his death, he wrote: "The one thing which I could not say then, and cannot...
...that catalogue, says Dr. Lin, does not do Su Tungpo full justice. Says he: "I can perhaps best sum it up by saying that the mention of Su Tungpo always elicits an affectionate and warm, admiring smile in China." With an affectionate and admiring smile on his own face, he has written an unaffected biography of an unaffected great...
...mention of material depth at Soldiers Field is mockery...
Esther Williams may not be sixteen--she didn't mention her age--but she still hasn't been kissed, at least not by Harvard footballer Jack Guidera...
...social scientists are not entirely to blame for the gap between these two broad areas of knowledge, for their brethren have had the early advantage of precise mensuration not to mention far more liberal public endowment. While the lab technician can talk in milligrams and light years, the economist still grapples with unmeasurable concepts like "marginal utility...