Word: remind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference he referred to the "shocking fact" that Albania had declared war on the Soviet Union. This step, said he, was taken under the direction of "Italy's Al Capone, known as Mussolini." As for the German claims of mighty victories, said Funnyman Lozovsky, "they remind me of the story of the hunter who shouted: 'I have caught a bear...
...remind their members that golf is still being played in the ancient and honorable island of its birth, many a U.S. golf club last week posted wartime rules which govern play on British links. Samples...
...shabby, flabby mess of promises and deals by which the former were cheated out of an England even half "fit for heroes." That out of the way, Graves and young (25-year-old) Alan Hodge get to work on the newspaper files. They remind us that Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic eight years before Lindbergh did; reveal the British press showing "widespread disagreement . . . about even so recent and important an event as the German reoccupation of the Rhineland: according to a large body of opinion it took place in March 1934, not 1936." On the evils of the Versailles...
...revenge and material gain, [tried to] substitute freedom for force in the government of the world." He ended: "It is good for America that this house in which Woodrow Wilson was born will be preserved for us and for many future generations. In this valley of Virginia it will remind America that his ideals of freedom were wide enough to support democracy in all the world. He taught that democracy could not survive in isolation. We applaud his judgment and his faith...
...interpretation doesn't do much more in a day's work than smile through a cordial bull-session and gape at the Eliot House Tower. A more virile portrayal would have been preferable. There should have been a shot of the football squad or the crew licking Yale, to remind our public that we can do it. Or, failing this, the magazine could have casually slipped in a few views of a brawny Harvard stag line. Nor will the statement that the local boys don't speak until introduced encourage prospective Harvard fans at female institutions; a correction should feature...