Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's boss-lady, Comrade Ana Pauker, tangled most bluntly with the West. When Britain's Sir Charles Peake spoke of the need for reciprocity between nations, she cried: "We know you. We had you around for a long time, and we don't want you again...
...need not be anxious," declared Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery as he looked over the state of the world. "I think that everything will work out all right in the end. Teach your boys & girls to grow up into decent men & women, and as long as you do that you need not worry...
...which the meaning of each word would be made quite clear. "The matter is extremely urgent," declared Shaw. ". . . Negotiation is impossible unless the parties use the same words for the same things and understand what the words mean . . . I myself find it impossible to make myself understood . . . Even liars need a language that will enable them to lie unambiguously...
Ernest, who had had a little musical education, had written some simple but appealing melodies. The doctors encouraged him; he was soon writing popular songs for his new friends among the staff and forgetting his need for a drink...
Last week the Taxicab Bureau, Inc. of New York reported that Manhattan cab drivers were no longer netting the $34 a day they need to pay for their cabs. Los Angeles' Yellow Cab Co., in the twelve months ended in July, rang up 63,547,-570 fare-miles, 9% more than in the preceding twelve-month period, but lost money because of an 8½% rise in costs...