Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a move were taken and if Washington bet its stud hand against that of Tokyo, the wily Nipponese might examine his navy, take a quick look at ours, and murmuring a polite remark about honorable eternal peace, drop out till the next deal. On the other hand he might very likely sense that our face-down cards include a population sixty percent against war and a Congress which wrangles over every action. He might step into Singapore, which in this case is the pot, and demand a showdown. The next move would...
...Japanese Diet Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka made a highly significant remark. In the event of a break between Japan and the U. S., said he, Russia would be taken care of by "prompt and effective steps." Talky Yosuke Matsuoka went on to explain that Japan's opposition to the extension of Communism in China had been an obstacle to a non-aggression pact with Russia, left his listeners to infer that if the U. S. got tough, Japan would give in on this point. In Moscow Japan's new Ambassador...
...Marcks, just antedated Hitler's conquest of Poland. Some of this sculpture-figures by Aristide Maillol and Ernst Barlach-was stockily reposeful, others-Lehm-brucks' bulb-domed, emaciated Head of a Thinker, Picasso's elongated Standing Girl -strained on their pedestals as uncomfortably as an ununderstood remark. Still others were what the man in the street calls screwball art. Only quality this sculpture had in common: individuality. Gallery-goers took a long, long look, wondered whether Europe would ever see its like again...
...speech to the Boy Scouts, who were celebrating their 31st anniversary, made a statement that many a businessman would like to believe: "The Government cannot and should not pre-empt those fields of private endeavor that have become an indispensable part of life in America." This remark, so opposite to the oldtime Roosevelt denunciations of entrenched greed, gave color to reports of his new attitude of "sweet reasonableness" toward industry...
...Club on the campus to smoke his pipe and play bridge. He plays a most unscientific game, but usually has plenty to say to his partner after a losing hand. Often his colleagues could cheerfully strangle him, for he stifles all bridge table chat. If someone drops an irrelevant remark, he raises his head and barks an equivalent of his famous: "Vot iss de effidence...