Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important a place in the scheme of things as anyone else. The thought delights the girl, and she rejoins her man. But after a subsequent chance meeting in which the brute beats the clown to death the heroine becomes acutely sad, whimpering at any number of things that remind her of the clown. Her owner steals away to resume his solitary wandering. Only years later, when he hears of her death, he suffers for the first time a real sorrow...
...impression whatever of having seen "forty years and one thousand lowerings" on whaling ships. His bland face has nothing of the torn, tortured, gnawed-at, fiery look that Ahab should have. Rather, as he paces the Pequod's deck, his long strides, suspenders, beard, and melancholy, almost soft, expression remind the viewer more of one of Ahab's prominent but quite contrasting contemporaries--Abe Lincoln...
...serve to remind the world that Bach as well as Himmler was German, and that Hitler was an enemy of Christians as much as of Jews. From the time Hitler took power in 1933 he held German honor in prison, and it is a sort of miracle that honor's voice was ever heard, and that it should speak, not as might be expected, in hatred and hysteria, but in the grave tones of Christian charity...
Ceremonial Sheep's Ear. Before he entered Russia, Douglas dined with India's Nehru, who was still bowled over by the warmth of the reception the Russians had given him on his own visit. Said Nehru: "The Russians remind...
...most of all, the apathy stems from the old-hat performances so far of Candidates Stevenson and Kefauver. Four years ago, recalled Miami News Columnist Bill Baggs, Stevenson "reminded many people of Woodrow Wilson. Not a few of the same people today say he reminds them of a man trying to remind them of Woodrow Wilson." Kefauver's act has gone equally stale. Wrote Baggs: "There is nothing special in shaking [his] hand any more. Everyone in the state has done it." Result: "We find there is more interest in the constable race in District Three than...