Word: nis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sudden Death. In his diary and letters Stilwell usually refers to Chiang Kai-shek as "Peanut" and Roosevelt as "Old Softie." The crisis in Stilwell's struggles with "Peanut" and "Old Softie" came in September 1944. In nis disgust with Chiang, he wrote to Mrs. Stilwell, "Why can't sudden death for once strike in the proper place?" Two days later he was jubilant. He finally got from Roosevelt what Editor White describes as "the sharpest-worded American demand for reform and action on the part of the Chinese government that the war had evoked...
History had yet to judge whether his labors, and those of Stalin and Churchill, Would bring a just and durable peace. But Franklin Roosevelt brought nis Acme nation triumphantly through a great war and started it on the road toward peace...
Millions of fervid Roosevelt supporters have assumed and insisted that President Roosevelt is a genuine But the President made nis declaration of "nationalism" with hardly a flicker of a cigaret ash. Having plumped for 100% "integrity," he went on smoothly and solemnly. The nations of the world, said he, have an objective: perhaps they can reach a unanimity which would stop wars before they are started. In a sense, he added, the League of Nations had that very, very great purpose, but that got involved in American politics. That was why he and Secretary of State Hull had been working...
...shot to move the box, or to shovel manure if it helps win the war!" and move it himself? If he'd done that, he wouldn't have given the "worker" a chance to "declaim for 45 minutes on nis 'rights' " and he would have set an example which might have had a favorable effect on the workers under his jurisdiction. No doubt, the worker was a skunk, but what sort of animal was the foreman, that he couldn't meet such an easy challenge...
...with that sort of thing wherever he went. The launching of the Constitution was staged "with marine background scenery bordering on the marvelous, with a final climactic picture of Niagara Falls." In Americana and Elutheria Benjamin Franklin stepped out of lightning-forked clouds with nis newly invented rod and handed it to France, who electrocuted Tyranny and Pride with it and revived prostrate Liberty "by the application of Science." Finale: eight nymphs lay down on the Alleghenies...