Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harsh Charge. The colonel's remark was a startling hint that the army, a major support of the regime, was grumbling. Perón's next shock came a day later when Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina entered a cabinet meeting arm in arm with Eduardo Vuletich, boss of Argentine labor. By this gesture, labor, the other support of Peronismo, served notice that it shared the army's discontent. Taking the floor, Vuletich attacked allegedly corrupt officials, notably the President's private secretary, Juan Duarte, brother of the late Eva Perón. When...
...religion: "Why, if God so loves us, does He give us such a hell of a time?" For the America he visited only once, Philosopher Joad reserved special acid: "What a genius Americans have for coming into war late, on the winning side." A lifelong fame-seeker, (most famous remark: "Thank God, I am famous!"), Joad talked students of the Oxford Union into resolving (in 1933) that they would under no circumstances fight for king and country, later soared to great popular heights as the life and soul of the BBC's quiz panel, "Brains Trust." In his later...
...which remark, no laggard...
...called the General Assembly's new Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden, "a successful choice." Of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, head of the U. S. delegation, Menon would only say he had a nice personality and was "a Harvard man." But he would not explain this last remark...
...port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor-tongued Lady Astor, eying Joe's drink: "I hope it's poison." Said Joe later: "I've been informed that some nice, kindly old lady did make that remark...