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...college graduate, Hoffman tried his idea on some 20 educators and historians, found them sympathetic, then found in C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan an enthusiastic collaborator. Author Grattan (The Deadly Parallel, Australia's Foreign Policy, etc.) once called the usual written history "academic mythology . . . because it fails to reckon with the buzzing, multifarious reality in which men acted the events...
...important facts qualify this picture of official Poland: 1) the Government still has to reckon with some feudal-minded, unbending figures who are totally unfitted to deal with Poland's plight; 2) the influence of some ultraconservative, violently anti-Russian leaders of the Polish Army is still strong, although they are not actually in the exiled government...
...room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls so big that you could a-throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started strippin' tobakker when I was eight, I reckon. Summers I chopped out corn and wormed and suckered tobakker. I reckon I allus wuz a show-off." Joy May's schooling lasted two weeks...
...thing was certain. The U.S. people had not won. They could reckon their losses in simple arithmetic...
...This bleeding newspaper says another 300,000 Germans killed on the Russian front. I've counted up all the Germans killed in Russia and I reckon there's only two of them left. Love a duck, what do they think...