Word: rants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a Miscalculation. Soviet spokesmen could rant & rave; they had plenty of time for it. The prolongation of Europe's plight played into Communist hands. This was the level where the Soviet Union was well equipped-the ideological level, where Communism feeds on misery and despair. So the inevitable question arose: "What does the U.S. do next...
...Stop Hollering." Looking at this poor advertisement for the nationalization program which had swept them into office, some British Labor Ministers began to rant at the "selfish minority" of miners who were holding up British recovery. Not all their followers went with them. In a radio broadcast last month, black-haired, black-eyed, hyperenergetic Xenia Field (prewar playwright and golf champion, now Deputy Director of Britain's Supply Ministry) told her fellow Laborites to stop hollering at the miners and give them more to eat. In Holland, where miners got 5,248 calories a day (British miner...
...because he is too busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees it. He is just now putting the finishing touches to his new novel, They Fought for Their Country. Sholokhov gets his heroic effect by indirection. He does not find it necessary to rant or repeat cliches of patriotism. He writes what seems to me to be the truth about soldiers. He says: "How much does a man need in time of war? To get a little farther away from death than usual, to rest, to have a good sleep and eat his fill...
...Frances Hopkins," apparently American, possibly the wife or daughter of a missionary. She is inclined to rant...
With his moods and tempers, British officials began to find Hess difficult. Before conversations got very far, he would rage and rant. One official saw Hess alone one day, decided to get started on an amiable course. Said the official: "There's some thing that has always interested me. In the Battle of Britain, to put it in round figures, British communiqués said Germany lost about 2,500 planes and we lost about 750. Now your communiqués said just about the opposite-that we lost 2,000 planes and Germany lost only about...