Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of his speech on the Berlin crisis, President John F. Kennedy took time to remind his listeners that the West faced an equally dangerous Communist challenge 5,000 miles away on the other side of the world?in Southeast Asia, where, said the President, "the borders are less guarded, the enemy harder to find, and the dangers of Communism less apparent to those who have so little...
...Angeles' Pilgrimage Theater, aging (60) but unbowed Violin Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz commented bitingly to the press on his seeming lack of interest in modern compositions. "Yes, I play them occasionally," said he. "And for two reasons. First, to discourage the composers from writing any more, and secondly, to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven...
Soon returned to three-star rank as commander of the Sixth Fleet, Anderson's political-diplomatic talents were put to the test as his 60 ships, 200 planes and 30,000 men roamed a million square miles to remind friendly and sometimes faltering governments that U.S. power was close at hand. At the same time, the Sixth Fleet under Anderson often served as a huge floating embassy of good will. His sailors were under taut control ashore: "A drunken liberty is a wasted liberty." Anderson sent high officers in civvies to police the S.P.s who were supposed to police...
...Counsel. Eichmann was so eager that he often gave Servatius directions, prodding his counsel to ask him questions. On one occasion Eichmann was so wrapped up in his notes and papers that Judge Landau coldly had to remind him to stand when addressed by the court. Eichmann's face flushed with momentary anger as he looked up; then, realizing where he was, he jumped up apologizing...
...your inane statement that the U.S. has a "queen": may I remind your obsequious reporter that the real "queens" of the U.S. are all the average gals who manage to look damned attractive without benefit of limitless funds, makeup artists, personal hairdressers, jewels, Cassini and/or Givenchy...