Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reed welcomed the fight. He stumped the state, rolling up his sleeves, tearing off his tie, then his collar, as he denounced the League. His arguments struck home. Reporting the campaign, the Kansas City Star's Roy Roberts overheard the remark of a Reed convert: "Well, I guess Jim's right. If there are going to be any furriners in this League of Nations, we'd better stay out." When the returns were in, Jim Reed...
...first version of a question which I am to hear many times in the next few days: "What in goddamned hell are you doing here?'' I say I have come up for dinner and he says: "Dinner!" Another shellburst leaves nothing to be added to this remark...
...precise and literal, it is perhaps permissible to remark that the exact words in Luke 23:34 are 'Forgive them; for they know not what they do.' The Germans know very well what they do and have known it for a long time. About forgiveness the British people require no lectures: they forgive and forget with fatal alacrity. But some erring sheep among us still associate forgiveness with contrition and repentance. It will be well enough to invite us not to be vindictive about flying bombs when flying bombs are no more and there has been some sign...
...York City's Municipal Asphalt Plant (see cut), exterior designed by Manhattan's Ely Jacques Kahn and Robert Allan Jacobs, once inspired the city's terrible-tempered Park Commissioner Robert Moses to remark: "Horrible modernistic stuff . . . what could be worse?" But it is doubtful whether many New Yorkers will long feel that way about a building whose flowing, oval contours harmonize so well with the serpentine East River Drive on which it stands...
...flat-dweller wrestled with his Morrison shelter-a flat, tablelike, metal affair, raised from the floor to admit mattress and sleeper, its sides wire-meshed against flying furniture, bricks-and glass. The bumped head (from mismeasured diving under the Morrison) was no longer worth even a casual remark...