Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fanned the General's casual and candid remark into an inflammatory "attack," and the torch had been taken up by Jewish leaders who are usually responsible, by some who are usually not, and by comedians like Eddie Cantor (TIME, Jan. 14). Even the New York Times had tossed some faggots on the blaze. Its off-the-cuff editorial judgment of General Morgan's remarks: "It was an insult to six million tortured dead." Walter Winchell, who writes for the Hearst press, said it louder: "Morgan must not only be fired, he must be repudiated by His Majesty...
...Gibson often whizzed down Cranmore Mountain on a wooden sled. But it wasn't until long after he'd made Who's Who, from a standing start as floor sweeper for an express company, that a chance remark by a relative aroused his interest in skiing. Cranmore Mountain had the snow in winter and the slopes. So he bought...
Some Washington newsmen, who knew that dickering for another Big Three meeting had gone on as recently as six weeks ago, were taken aback. Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an angry column taking the President to task for another "offhand remark." In a querulous tone he asked whether the President intended to turn over General MacArthurs administration of Japan to the UNO Security Council-an eleven-nation body in which five nations have an unchallengeable veto...
Said Atkinson: "This temperamental remark . . . assumes that the effort toward understanding is to come all in one direction. . . . Living in isolation behind inhospitable borders, Russia dwells in an atmosphere of self-congratulation. . . . Despite the warmheartedness of the individual Russian people . . . Russia is not trying to understand us as eagerly as many Americans are trying to understand Russia. In such matters Russia imports a great deal more than she exports...
Harry Truman arose, motioned to the others to keep their seats. At the piano he turned to remark: "When Stalin heard me play this he signed the protocol at Potsdam." The piano was not in good tune and Harry Truman was not in his best musical form. He confessed that he had finished the Minuet with a few bars of a Mozart sonata. Then there were autographs to sign-from a toy bear to a WAVE's leave papers...