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...China now has 7,000,000 famine refugees." Then Tung quoted a proverb: "It is the tail of the famine," he said, "rather than the head, that should be dreaded." Tung was warning his hearers that the next three months would be crucial. After that, the June harvest of winter wheat and the first rice crop would bring food...
There's an old Scandanavian maxim which states, "Skiing is Believing." To a person who has never been on skils the applicability of this proverb seems dubious, but those who have experienced the thrills of twisting trails may only repeat this to each other and sagely need their heads, recollecting old days on the Suicide...
...good humor during the conferences. When the Russian armies were on the offensive at Stalingrad, he told the reporters: "You can say [I am] dee-lighted, if you want to." And when they questioned him on U.S. dealings with the dubious Admiral Darlan, he retorted with "an old Balkan proverb": "My children, you are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the Devil until you have crossed the bridge...
...with the same subject suggested that the members of the "Harvard Annex" might consider themselves as "...collegiate guardians of good morals and good order." This "doormat to Heaven" conception of a woman's place in the world was the condescending side of the masculine philosophy embodied in the Chinese proverb that "the three virtues of women are to obey the father, to obey the husband, to obey...
...four years of U.N. debates, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky has led before his resigned listeners a never-ending proverb-and-parable parade of sly foxes, bad wolves, innocent lambs, triumphant virtues and defeated vices. Last week, Britain's smart, literate Hector McNeil rose to smite the master with his own weapon...