Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know least can be found in this Baedeker to Down Under. Author Grattan ("America's foremost authority on Australia") covers the country's history, economy, politics, culture, its relations with Britain, its record in World Wars I & II, its future. The last is summed up in a remark by ex-Premier Robert Menzies: "We will never realize our destiny as a nation until we realize that we are one of the Pacific powers...
White and shaken, the young lieutenant picked himself up and examined his peaked campaign hat on the ground. The shot had torn it clean off his head. Even the tough top sergeant was moved. Said he: "With the lieutenant's kind permission, may I remark that the rest of the lieutenant's life is now on velvet...
...they just said, "Well, it's here." Sometimes they had nothing at all to say: Louisiana State University students massed, marched to the President, who came out in his dressing gown with no message except "study hard." Sometimes they laughed at something someone else had said, like the remark of the Chinese Vice Consul of New Orleans, who announced: "As far as Japan is concerned, their goose is overheated...
Less eloquent, but just as typical of Britain's belief in the U.S. as a comrade-in-arms, was a London bobby's remark: "This is the last stage. The war couldn't end until America was in. Now that she is in, the end is in sight...
...fact that you chose to remark upon my talk in Boston recently was very flattering. But at the same time I fear that what you chose to quote from this talk may prove misleading not only to North Americans but surely will make my South American friends feel that their hospitality has been answered with ridicule...