Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...various theories of life and love. The soldier's jokes got like this: "Now that the war is love we're making pottery." The sex involves the two principals, who remove layers of their clothes at intervals and kiss each other at length. One young observer was heard to remark: "Two people are enjoying themselves, anyway...
...Sheets is one of the most versatile and successful of U.S. artists; he seems more like a bland, blond bond salesman. Sheets is one painter who can look his patrons in the eye and remark, without a deprecatory smile, "I'm no genius...
...evening. Eventually one particularly bitter scrimmage in front of the Yale cage broke into fisticuffs, whereupon the tardy Messrs. McDonell and Crovat penalized both players. But contrary to general practice, they failed to escort them from the ice, and fighting broke out again when Moher replied to a harmless remark from Abbot by hitting him with his stick...
...took a job in the barrel room at a 5-shilling cut in wages, but he was far from happy. "Redmund smokes a pipe," he grumbled. "I don't like it, but I ain't saying anything." A reporter from the Daily Herald printed the remark and Alf got the sack...
...best die-away officialese, Cripps had explained what might happen next: "If it becomes necessary to cut our dollar imports further, we shall be almost bound to have to cut raw materials. That will undoubtedly cause inconvenience." This characteristically deadpan remark was British understatement with a vengeance. One of the many things Cripps did not say-though implicit in what he said-is that one ultimate method of closing a trade gap is starving to death...