Word: remarked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Atomic Bomb: The President told the Prime Minister that he would let him know whenever he thought the U.S. might have to use the Abomb. This was a part victory for Attlee, who had been shocked by the President's recent remark that the U.S. was considering use of the bomb. He got an assurance that Britain would be notified of any such intention...
...reporter picked up a presidential remark that every weapon the U.S. had would be made available to General MacArthur: "Mr. President," he declared, "you said that means every weapon that we have. Does that mean that there is active consideration of the use of the atomic bomb...
...mood to teach Harry Truman the hoary lesson that no politician ever has the U.S. voter in his pocket. A beaten Scott Lucas decided, and probably correctly, that he was the victim in part of Harry Truman's cockiness. He ruefully recalled the President's arrogant preelection remark in St. Louis that any farmer or laborer who voted Republican should have his head examined. The angry Lucas was sure the crack had hurt him, that Illinois voters had decided among other considerations that it was time to take Harry Truman down a peg by rejecting Scott Lucas...
...This is your regiment-you inspect it," said King George VI to Queen Elizabeth when they went to see a battalion of the Black Watch in 1939. That the royal remark was not a nrere passing-of-the-buck due to occupational fatigue was certified by two facts: 1) the Queen of England is the colonel in chief of the Black Watch, and 2) no Briton, king or commoner, could ever be too tired to inspect one of the most famous and glamorous outfits in British army annals...
...more intractable than ever and were often shifted from ordinary P.W. camps to military prisons for a varied list of offenses, e.g., "Dunlop, five years for sabotage; Dykes, four years for breaking a picture of Hitler over the head of a guard; Thomson, five years for making an unprintable remark about Hitler . . ." Black Watchers were not only disrespectful prisoners, they were restless ones. Every captured officer of the regiment made at least one effort to escape...