Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only Unanimous Thing. . . ." But encased among the Molotov allegations that day had been the pregnant phrase "a central democratic all-German government." The others appeared to pay no attention, at first. But next morning, studying the transcripts, U.S. and British delegates realized that the phrase could not be ignored. Molotov was talking straight to German nationalism and the grandstand of German public opinion, while Communist fellow travelers in the U.S. were accusing Washington of bidding for German favor...
...hardly enough heat to warm a small coffeepot). Several children who had been playing in the yard eyed us closely. They too were prisoners (the Communists use children for petty spying and to plant explosives, the guide said). Most of the other prisoners, standing in military formations, were singing. Phrase by phrase, the grey-uniformed men followed their tenor leaders in one song called I Love My Gun, another, Victory Song. They sang in excellent unison, breath steaming in the cold...
...undemocratic and divisive. During the war, the Army shut down Japanese and Chinese language schools, but last month in federal court they won the right to start up again. In many homes, where parents speak no English and children no Japanese, pidgin is the only family tongue. One pidgin phrase is known as far as Italy. It is the motto of the famed Japanese-American 442nd Infantry Combat Team in World War II: "Go for broke" ("Give it everything...
...word-time. Time in which to wreck the Marshall Plan on the shoals of disorder in Europe, on the rocks of the great U.S. depression which Moscow believes imminent. Moscow is by no means ready for full-fledged international war, but neither does it want peace. In the phrase of a top British diplomat, it wants a "twilight zone" between peace and war. Quite satisfactory twilights have been produced in Greece and China. It is time, in Moscow's eyes, for twilight to roll westward, along the course...
...records, "Tiger Rag," is similar to an older American version, except that the final trumpet solo has the phrase "I wandered today to the hill, Maggic" instead of the earlier "Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around the flag pole." Continuing in the community song vein later on are snatches from "Tea For Two" and "Pat On Your Old Grey Bonnet...