Word: rememberable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quo Tai-chi was the shrewd, soft-spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory...
General Hideki Tojo got a language lesson while awaiting trial. When the lesson was over the ex-Premier knew just about as much as anybody else. Just what did "Hubba, hubba" mean, he asked a visitor from the American prosecution staff. " 'Hurry up,' " obliged the visitor. "Ah, so...
But Francisco Largo Caballero, who had shaped the history of Spain by fighting stubbornly for the things he wanted, fought on for breath. If he could still remember, his memories must have been bitter.
A century ago this month, a London engraver's daughter named Kate Greenaway opened her eyes on the world. She soon found it good. Her adult life was a grey, lonely history of work, but she never quite lost the sunlight that filled her head when she was small...
With a faint, abstracted smile, like a man trying to remember his first girl, Liang plucked out clear notes with the fingernails of his right hand; made them whine and sob with his left. Those who gave up listening for familiar chords (and trying to ignore the weird half tones...