Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary John Foster Dulles' trip to the Middle East-TIME, May 18: To one humble Canadian citizen living in England, the President's tactlessness in presenting a pistol to General Naguib-a dictator who sometimes advocates lawlessness-is on a par with the irresponsible and mischief-making remark of Mr. Attlee, to the effect that some Americans do not want peace...
...When Erik Brofoss, Labor's Commerce Minister, says "This law may be a mistake, but faced by the uncertainties of future war or depression . . . it is a very honest attempt to meet the problems that might arise," the man in the street sees the sincerity of Brofoss' remark but misses its naiveté. Another obstacle, said a bitter Norwegian shipowner, was too much reliance on skippertak, the Norwegian habit of procrastinating until the last minute and then hustling to set matters aright. This time, when the last minute came, there was no skippertak...
...must confess to having been angry enough to want to see my complaint in print. What upset me was the wholley unwarrented treatment of the various religious groups in the Yearbook (317) References to magic and so forth in the article on the Christian Scientists, a flippant remark about money and parties in the one on the Catholic Club, and others, none of them worthy of reproduction, set a new high for bad taste...
Nine conversations out of ten are apt to bring out one's collegiate affiliation. A casual remark, such as, "When I was at Harvard the subway ran from Cambridge to Boston in seven minutes," is totally useless. It is impossible to minimize the effect of the word "Harvard" on alien ears. Casual reference will be regarded as a sly way fr one to get across his background...
Bill got his Navy wings and commission in October 1941, and was shipped to Pearl Harbor. His skipper made him officer of the day for Sunday, Dec. 7, with the remark that "nothing happens here on Sunday." The something that happened that Sunday-the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor-allowed Ensign Bridgeman to distinguish himself in the only possible way that day by not getting wounded...