Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilder claims that "The Post" reporter blew to monstrous proportions an offhand remark he had made and said he'd just as soon decline comment on the whole business...
...bloody campaigns (Peleliu and Okinawa), and received two wounds (one in each campaign), who will not be 25 years old until next month, and who knows that a lot of my buddies were my age or younger ... I hope you will print this letter so that Hershey's remark may at least be placed in perspective. It was precisely the youngsters who were doing the bloody work-so they only saw two years service (a short time...
...forgetfulness is changing talented Author Mary McCarthy from a sharp satirist into a hollow groaner. Taut little early McCarthy opuses such as The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt and Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man would never have let a female character get away with a remark like "Ah, you hate it because it is mine. You would like to see it all go to ruin." Still less could an earlier McCarthy character have murmured to herself, "She would leave him, she thought, as soon as the petunias had bloomed." But The Weeds, first of the four...
...this position, Louis Johnson apparently won JCS Chairman Omar Bradley-a conquest which caused one Administration official to remark: "My God, the town is upside down. Even Leon Keyserling is talking about more divisions, while General Bradley is talking about how much the economy can stand...
...remark mean that? A day later, in his fireside chat to the nation, Harry Truman went back to the subject. The U.S. has no designs on Formosa, he said. It is a "territory in dispute," and its future should be settled by "international action," after the Korean peace. U.S. policy towards Formosa was still to "neutralize" it. Translated, this seemed to mean: we don't want Formosa, but no one is going to get it until the U.N. decides what's to become...