Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration followed up its seizure by asking a federal district court in Chicago in effect to legalize the President's Act by sanctioning it. Attorney General Francis Biddle, who painfully remembers his last clash with Avery, was not quite sure how to regard Avery's present position. In the course of one short press conference, Biddle referred once to Avery as "perfectly harmless," a few minutes later was describing him as "a tough old guy who will stick to his guns." At week's end, irreconcilable old Sewell Avery trumpeted that a court test of the President...
Charles de Gaulle rose quickly, angrily. His words cut across a legislative uproar: "With regard to the drama of 1940, there were many differences then between men and groups. I did not go to Vichy then, but many who were there believed they were serving their country in their own ways. It was possible to have different conceptions of serving one's country...
...team, and went home. But New Deal Congressmen still had reservations about three, in particular, of the six appointees: William L. Clayton, whom they consider a "cartelist"; Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, whom they partly blame for the Darlan policy in 1942; veteran Diplomat James Dunn, whom they regard as the villain of the U.S. appeasement policy toward Franco...
...Issue ran the way Frenchy liked-fast from behind. Her breeding was none too fashionable: Bow To Me, her sire, had already been shunted off to Cuba as a has-been. But her paternal grandsire was the great French racer Epinard (spinach), for whom French-born Pinon had high regard. He took the plunge, led away Happy Issue from a claiming race...
...desire to take holy orders. He is brought to it by his sweetheart's death and by a benign old Monsignor (Edmund Gwenn) who talks, not too urgently, about the will of God. It is this same mentor who sends the young priest, when he has come to regard himself as a hopeless failure, a thousand miles deep into 19th-Century China, to install himself in a leaky stable near a ruined church, and to endure as he may the insults of the anti-Christians who defile his Mission signs and of the "rice Christians" who cynically fawn...