Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union, Prime Minister Mikolajczyk tossed this bid for a reconciliation: "The sincere wish of the new Polish Government [is] that relations with Russia be re-established." But in his first official interview he let drop a remark which must have ruffled Russia anew. Instead of ignoring a correspondent's question asking whether Poland favored the restoration of the Baltic States, Mikolajczyk replied: "I can say that no Pole could remain indifferent to the aspirations of any country seeking independence...
What was that remark? He's probably the only one they have? Fella, you haven't been around very much, have you--wotchya doin'--readin' C.I. all the time? Take that fella who sits next to him "Slush" Buskirk. The armed forces don't have to take Tommy Dorsey if they want a real trombone player. Heck, no, we've got the ace right here in our own ball park. And what about Merv Lysing on the sax? Minnesota sure lost a good bet when he went to Harvard here. And the rhythm section only two pieces, but man, they...
...just how you'll get back to Cambridge is your worry (I hitched, but don't tell the War Department.) Art Hodes, an you probably know unless you're reading this just to deaden that wait on the chowline or because you're one of my room mates (noidle remark; at the last census in D-41 McKinlock we were ten, not including a mysterious joker who floats in now and then to read PM and The New Republic), well, Art Hodes is one of the old Chicago gang that learned its jazz from the great New Orleans musicians...
...Wehrmacht's favorite apologists, Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar: "We started this war with different conceptions from those we hold now. Many illusions were shattered. . . . We realize that such an adversary cannot be knocked out with one blow." Inasmuch as Adolf Hitler conceived the invasion of Russia, this remark constituted indirect criticism of the intuitive Führer...
...exam had a few men repeating the old favorite worrier. What happens if we bilge now?" We think it's safe to say that our biggest regret would be the necessity of leaving the Supply Corps Midshipmen Officers School for some old commissioned line duty somewhere. (Gentlemen, a cryptic remark!) No wonder a Middle remarked to me the other day, quote. "Boy, we're glad you guys came before us guys, Sir", unquote...