Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evenings spent at a mountain castle: "Hitler was terribly nice. But such a parvenu world!" He broods on the fact that he suddenly cannot remember the Führer's "engaging traits": "Have continued to reflect on my relationship to Hitler. The theme of faithlessness." He recalls the remark of an associate, "made after an evening visit to my studio, that I was Hitler's unrequited love...
...that they could overthrow the United States of America through terrorist tactics." After she was frightened into submission, she also became convinced that the FBI would kill her if she tried to escape?a conviction, Bailey went on, that was only hardened by then Attorney General William Saxbe's remark that Patty should be regarded as "nothing but a common criminal." At the moment she was captured by FBI agents last September, Bailey continued, "her terror mounted to the point which is probably the highest a human being can stand, and she became incontinent." As they listened to Bailey...
...understood this when he made his remark about Go, for the time Japan was militarily at China's throat...
...Washington, Rabin tried to present a softer image for Israel. Speaking before a joint meeting of Congress, he said that he was "ready to meet with any Arab head of government at any time and at any place." He quoted Sadat's remark to Congress that "there is no substitute for direct person-to-person contact" and then won applause by adding, "I wish that he would direct those words to me as well...
...number of papers dropped a recent strip in which Trudeau called President Ford's son Jack a "pothead." Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That's guilty, guilty, guilty!" Trudeau later explained that he was only trying to parody the hysteria of Nixon foes, but dozens of papers excised the panels. In an editorial, the Washington Post huffed...