Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Center of the revolution was big, bald Engineer Henry J. Kaiser, whose motto has always been: Who can't? Kaiser had gone to Washington with a big, bold plan to build 5,000 cargo planes and lick the shipping shortage-the kind of vast, impossible vision that Americans love. At Washington's hands, the vision had suffered shabby treatment...
...Marquess of Bath. There had been a great clatter and clucking at the divorce. His Lordship did not seem to mind the talk. One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said. Their motto was "I seek only...
Welcome, TIME & LIFE, into the ranks of the true believers whose motto is "The Marines can do anything...
...common soldier, Padilla joined bush-whiskered Emiliano Zapata, a tenant farmer whose legions of peon generals spread terror among the owners of great haciendas. One of the few incorruptible revolutionists, Zapata believed genuinely in the social revolution. All Mexicans remember his motto: "Man of the South, it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...
...home affairs he spoke more specifically : "We are not engaged in a war effort in which we can have as our motto: 'Business as Usual' or 'Pleasure as Usual.' The Government propose ... to prevent the abuse of the wishes of the majority . . .by any small or selfish group. . . . Dog racing and boxing displays ... are com pletely out of accord with the true spirit of determination of the people in this crisis. . . . Personal extravagance must be eliminated altogether. ... I am certain that every member of the Cabinet will be prepared to [attend] the funeral of that person...