Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of Morse's torrent of abuse dealt with the same excerpts from Mrs. Luce's old political speeches (the latest from 1952) that he had attacked earlier at the committee hearing, especially her "lied us into war" remark about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Morse's case against that one sentence, spoken 15 years ago, sprawled over 17 small-print three-column pages in the Congressional Record. He called the remark "subversive," "evil," "sinister," "untruthful," "hysterical" and "unpatriotic...
...grand total of errors finally reached fifteen. Later on, Norm Shepard said he had never seen anything like it. And the official scorer, as he screwed his head back on, was heard to remark, "I had the toughest workout of anybody in the park...
There was no doubt that John Foster Dulles' illness hung heavily on the President's mind in everything he did. "It is like losing a brother," he had said; and from Dwight Eisenhower, brought up one of seven brothers in Abilene, Kans., the remark had deep meaning. Nor was there any doubt that the President meant to keep Dulles on his staff, at least in name, as long as Dulles was able...
...Mithradates flew for refuge to his son-in-law, King Tigranes of Armenia. A few years later, Tigranes marched forth at the head of 250,000 foot soldiers and 55,000 horsemen. To meet him went Rome's Lucullus with a mere handful of men-causing Tigranes to remark: "If these men have come as an embassy they are too many; but if they come as an army they are too few." The words had scarcely left the royal lips when Lucullus attacked and, at the reported cost of five Romans, destroyed "100,000 barbarians...
When asked about verse drama, Tynan replied with a vigorous defense of prose. He recalled a remark of his that T.S. Eliot and Christopher Fry, the leaders of the back-to-verse movement, reminded him of "two very energetic swimming instructors giving lessons in an empty pool.... I think, when the whole zeitgeist is toward prose, when prose has so recently been made respectable (nobody dreamed of writing a serious play in prose before 1870), when we're learning so rapidly about the possibilities of prose ... I just cannot go along with people, like Eliot, who say that there...