Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indignant flappings and cawings over Capitol Hill. The old cry of "purge" rang through its tiled corridors. The President was annoyed that the crack got out; he hadn't meant his caller (A.V.C. Chairman Gil Harrison) to repeat it. At his news conference he refused to amplify the remark, declared that he was not interested in purges. The people, he said tartly, would take care of that...
...shifting shadows and dim spangles of light. She highlights some shapes with dabs of tempera, underlines some with India ink scratches, blurs others out. As a result, her subjects seem to be glimpsed through the rich, hazy surfaces of her pictures. Their evanescent quality led one critic to remark that Bishop was battling an insidious foe, "none other than invisibility...
...realm, he has become even more popular with his people than in the old days. His subjects seem to prefer his humanity to his divinity; at baseball games (he recently attended his first-see cut), among workers, wherever he goes, they take inexplicable comfort from his invariable approving remark, "Ah so, ah so." Yet even in their homage of their constitutional monarch the people are confused...
Johnson would find himself in an awkward box. He met the issue head-on at a press conference with a classic head-ducking remark. "I am supporting the President's program," announced Johnson flatly. Then he added warily: "And I'm not quarreling with Congressmen...
...bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from old Sea Scholar Churchill the blissful, almost dreamy remark: "Seapower, when properly understood, is a wonderful thing...