Word: recollect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that he leaned back, fired up a big black cigar and invited the committee to do its worst. In two days of questioning him it made almost no real effort to shake his denials or probe his failure to recollect details...
...recollect that any civilization ever perished from an attack of doubt," Ortega said. "I recollect that civilizations usually die through the ossification of their traditional faith, through an arteriosclerosis of their beliefs...
...more sleep. Vag smiled softly at the wall; it had been worth it. The game-he remembered that almost clearly-had been the best he'd seen since before the war. A big noisy crowd, plenty of passing, plenty of color, plenty of everything. As far as Vag could recollect, we won the game, and afterwards; well, that was a little dim. There had been one cocktail party where who stopped in the middle of a sentence, muttered something incoherent, and quickly leaned out of the nearest window. After that there had been some dancing going on, and then...
...Churchill crammed the treasure of facts saved up during his six weeks overseas. Into it he packed drama, the finely chiseled word, the sense and feel of history which are his. He had not come to apologize or to defend himself. Rather, he had come in triumph: "I cannot recollect," said he, "anything so complete and prolonged as the series of victories which have attended our Allied arms in almost every theater." He proclaimed progress in Anglo-American relations with Russia (see p. 38), but his speech was largely a report on "this amazing and fearful world...
...shrewd ones, however, an end to war would spell a beginning of something else. The Junkers, the big industrialists and the professional soldiers are schooled in the belief that unconditional surrender need not be catastrophic-unless imposed by the Russians. Once before, they might recollect, a timely yielding had proved surmountable. They would reason that a new Versailles dictated by Western powers would scarcely rob them of their skills and the ability eventually to use them again...