Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True, 51-year-old Dr. Hu had a scholarly disinclination for propagandistic finagling, and everyone knew that U.S. Lend-Lease aid to China was monumentally short of what China could use. But many U.S. citizens agreed that Dr. Hu had more than made good his remark in returning $60,000 for propaganda to his Government: "My speeches are sufficient propaganda and do not cost you anything." Warm, wise, statesmanly Dr. Hu was, in fact and in his own person, just about the most persuasive argument for China imaginable...
...retreats (Dunkirk was the other), in both cases he got the job after other generals had been recalled, possibly too late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, 54-year-old Ulsterman...
...business pages the Chief had the general remark that good progress was being made toward means to avert inflation, and newshawks put this together with previous dope stories that New York's Judge Rosenman had already submitted a tentative plan built around the formation of an Economic Stabilization Authority. To it might be named Leon Henderson, William H. Davis, Marriner Eccles, Henry Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, Claude Wickard and a chairman appointed by the President...
...speech before Conservatives in his constituency by Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary Harvie Watt, who described British second-front meetings as "violent political propaganda" and told off advocates of a second front with the remark that they "had never distinguished themselves by any great desire to shoulder arms...
...Negro districts produce dementia paralytica or syphilitic collapse of the mind. But all forms of schizophrenia are remark ably frequent among white people living in predominantly Negro districts...