Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't have known we were spawning such a big girl as "Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot up their own fuselage and the plane came crippling in-a mech had lost a foot and Mac's hand was badly injured. Mac's rueful remark was that it was a pretty stupid way to have to earn a Purple Heart...
...excited crowd left the hall in a slowly moving stream. V. M. Chernov came down from the platform, rolling his papers into a cylinder. We walked off to the coat racks together. The sentries did not stop anyone, but I heard a remark aimed at Chernov: "There's someone for the point of a bayonet...
...Providence has under its special care children, idiots, and the United States of America." This famed remark, attributed to Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth), was a Briton's backhanded way of saying that the U.S. was a success. With few such perceptive quips but a relentless, mind-clogging avalanche of scholarly quotes, furrow-browed Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, 55, says much the same thing in his physically massive (1,036 pages) survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly...
...Giant" [Dec. 9]: it is true that India has more cattle than any other country, but those millions of sacred cows just don't produce sufficient cow dung to generate 75% of the electric power of India-furthermore, I'm sure Nehru never made such a flabby remark...
...eccentricity is particularly British chiefly for two reasons: 1) "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark of the British nation," 2) "all great gentlemen are eccentric [because] their gestures are not born to fit the conventions or the cowardice of the crowd." Cynical sociologists might remark that it is not gentlemanliness that makes for eccentricity so much as having lots of money with which to buy absolute liberty. Among the scores of eccentrics cited, a great many were born with silver spoons in their mouths and golden bees in their bonnets...