Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face, sir. When you ask me are the coal miners hungry I say yes, and when you call me a demagogue I say you are less than a proper representative of the com mon people of this country. . . ." Snapped Chairman Truman: "We don't stand for any sassy remarks. I don't like that remark to a member of this com mittee...
Peru accorded the Vice President a 21-gun salute, approved such polite profundities as his remark that Pan-Americanism was "the vertebral column" for any new world organization. Wallace's plane left Lima's airport at dawn. Irrepressible Mr. Wallace insisted on walking the four miles to the airport in the dark. (He also surprised Latin Americans by announcing that he missed his customary afternoon game of tennis. They thought U.S. citizens were too busy with the war to be taking exercise...
...Archbishop with his high-pitched Yorkshire-Irish brogue expressed his "unbounded indignation" at the Italian attack on Ethiopia (and defended the silent Pope as "a helpless old man"). What Pius thought of this remark is not on record, but twice afterwards when His Holiness created new Cardinals, he passed over Hinsley...
...work of the Radio Section has been acknowledged by a torrent of military fan mail. Comedian Bob Hope closed one Command Performance broadcast with the remark that if the boys wanted Songstress Ginny Simms to purr another number, "just tear off the top of a Zero and send it in." The boys sent a big hunk of wing with the Rising...
...Churchill once more pointed out that North Africa was Mr. Roosevelt's enterprise. With fine Churchillian sarcasm, he said: "It is indeed remarkable that the Germans should have shown themselves ready to run the risk and pay the price required of them by their struggle to hold the Tunisian tip. While I have always hesitated to say anything which might afterwards look like overconfidence, I cannot resist the remark that one seems to discern in this policy the touch of a master hand, the same master hand that planned the attack on Stalingrad...