Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperate stage, when the U.S. has gained even more time to arm, with more precious months added to those since Dunkirk, the President and the U.S. can face what Columnist Ray Clapper last week called "the bedrock question." Then the President could decide what he meant by the remark: "But convoys mean shooting and shooting means...
...find one of the famed cherry trees that was at least budding. The photographers and the Queen shinnied vainly up & down many a cold tree, peering for buds. At last they found one, and the 1941 Queen made history for the photographers by uttering the first pleasant remark they could remember in the circumstances. "Hi, bud," said Nancy brightly, "where are the others...
There seems to be a tendency still to quote Washington in behalf of isolation. How about the remark of reputedly sager and more worldly-wise of the founding fathers...
...Davis in a thrilling, drama-packed battle that had the spectators on their feet all the way. Both men were tense and tuned to a high pitch for the contest. "Putzy," although defeated, put up a terrific fight, keeping Gardiner on edge throughout the match. Gardiner was heard to remark after the fight that "'Putzy' sure packs a colossal wallop...
TIME, Jan. 20 quotes the Duke of Wellington as having said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. . . . According to Lyte's History of Eton College, the only record of any remark of this kind is contained in a contemporary account . . . : "He looked into the garden and asked what had become of the broad ditch over which he used often to leap. He said: 'I really believe I owe my spirit of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden...