Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women like Annedore Leber may expect (at best) to be under arrest within 48 hours of any Western evacuation of Berlin. Until that day comes-if it does-they can continue battling to show the Russians that their Nervenkrieg has been far from an unqualified success-and to remind the Western powers that they are defending in Berlin something more than just 150,000 acres of this debris-laden Brandenburg plain. Is there anything else they...
...form, most people remember Mama well. But any initial familiarity shouldn't prevent a look at the screen version, for this West Coast cupboard saga profits from retelling. Remaining within the casual domestic confines of Kathryn Forbes' original story, Hollywood has wisely refrained from introducing any heartbreaking scenes to remind the audience that this is the most socko treatment so far. Instead, Mama and her family carry the yarn in terms of routine actions and the result is a mood picture of satisfying substance...
Foaming steins that never empty and plaintive ballads that never end may remind some of the ETO, but they remind thousands more of the four glorious years they drifted through their Alma Mater. It was Smokey Joe's at Pennsylvania and Zinck's at Cornell and at Harvard, well, don't send your boy to Harvard warned the dying mother because there's no place to go. He can sing with the Glee Club and drink wherever the stools are softest; but because of a Cambridge ruling forbidding tavern singing, he can't do both at once...
White paper roses adorned the lapels of Liberal (meaning ultraconservative) Party members in Japan's Diet. The roses were to remind Diet members to behave like gentlemen during the voting for the new Prime Minister.* The reminder was effective, but it did not help the Liberals' own candidate, Shigeru Yoshida. In an orderly manner, the Diet's lower chamber voted for busy, birdlike Hitoshi Ashida, leader of the Democratic (meaning mildly conservative) Party...
...world." The U.S. has always been ready for the millenium, he continued, but has unfortunately been balked at almost every turn by Russia. About our activities in Greece, Elliott declared that we would be "untrue to our tradition" if we held back. He spared no pains to remind his audience of Soviet machinations in Eastern Europe, which he felt were "violations as flagrant as any in history" of agreements between nations...