Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the taxpayer, seeking to avoid Professor Bowling's tag of infantilism, will take what comfort and maturity he can find from the late Oliver Wendell Holmes's remark that "taxes are what we pay for civilized society." In the contemporary scene purchasable civilization means, mostly, defense against the Communist world revolution. The freedom to be defended is priceless, which is one of the reasons why argument about the price has abated...
...course this was never said at the luncheon. But it was implied in every remark during the meeting and each handshake at its conclusion. After all, what could be a better sign of unity than a football championship trophy given by Pennsylvania, once the stormiest eleven in the East, now just one of seven other amateur teams...
Yesterday's edition contained a letter by an editor of the Daily Princetonian asking about Harvard's "big men on Campus." At the letter's end you commented that "Harvard has no Campus." This snide remark simply points out a serious failing--the College has no strong leadership and thus no big men on Campus...
Tory Sir Ian Horobin brought up Yalta and its disclosures about Roosevelt's remark to Stalin that Churchill would have strong objections to giving up the colony of Hong Kong. "Strong objections," Churchill rumbled, "that was certainly correct." He paused a moment and then, in a lionlike voice, added: "-And even an understatement...
...Winston singled out the remark attributed to him about Poland ("I do not care much about the Poles myself"). "I do not at all accept it," he said. "My record throughout the war . . . will show with what deep sympathy I viewed the fate of the people of Poland." Churchill himself, as eminent historian, had rushed into print as fast as anyone with newly declassified material. Besides, so far as Yalta was concerned, he and Anthony Eden could take some comfort in the record; whatever his own verbal indiscretion, the fact was that only the British delegation had fought with skill...