Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though she was obviously tired (she dislikes air travel, complained that her eardrums "were about to burst"), she talked with animation. At one point she remarked: "Today is my wedding day." Her hostess said, "Is that so? We'll have to have a celebration." Said Madame Chiang: "Just being here is my celebration...
Both Mijnheer van der Meulen's increased production schedules and Burgomaster Witschey's civic improvement plans are regarded as encouraging in Nijverdal. But "Marshall help" means something more personal than that. A slippered housewife made the point succinctly. "From 1931 to 1936," she said, "there wasn't much work at the mill. Jan dug peat. Almost the whole town dug peat. If Jan loses his job again, I don't think we would get over...
...Part Good Fellowship. There was one point I wanted to clear up. "Why," I asked spinners in the plant canteen, "do you think America is doing this?" Answered Jan Missink, a wiry, blond fellow, seven members of whose family work for the company: "Americans really want to help us; they know that under the Russians we would be lost, as we were under the Germans." Said Berend Groote: "Yes, it is part self-interest and part sportief [good fellowship...
Attlee sat slumped down as far as he could get on a front bench, almost hidden behind a paper on which he doodled continuously. At one point, Churchill asked...
...point is: that we were junking idealism. While we do plan to show the practical workings of our economy, we will continue to counteract the milk-socialist propaganda of the local pseudo-intellectuals by showing that the American way, as we see it, will give "the greatest good for the greatest number...