Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroyed, e.g., his huge (60 by 36 ft.) marble statue of German road builders, the product of four years' work, had been cut into building blocks. Nonetheless, Thorak had managed to get together 17 pieces of his work including His Last Flight, a limply classical war memorial, to remind Salzburg of just how grandiose he could...
...Williams was told to lead his 45 elephants out any way he could. His story of how he coaxed them, their riders, and a small army of hungry refugees over more than 100 miles of plains and mountain wilderness between Kan-chaung, Burma and Silchar, India will remind readers, as it does Elephant Bill himself, of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps. But Williams keeps his voice at a modest pitch even when reciting this journey's most spectacular feat, i.e., leading his charges across a 3-ft.-wide ledge hundreds of feet high. Says he: "I learned...
Everyone except Russia was pleased with the three-power statement. The West had simply-and at long last-decided that a unified policy would not only help keep peace but also remind Russia that Britain, France and the U.S. are capable of a common front even in an area where their interests have in the past differed...
...Hirakawa, the Arthur Godfrey of Japanese radio, gets such enthusiastic letters from some of his 1,250,000 fans that he had to remind one admirer: "The war is over, and writing letters in your own blood is undemocratic." Like his burly U.S. counterpart, dapper, 48-year-old Joe Hirakawa is continually swamped with presents: hand-knitted sweaters, fresh vegetables, wine, porcelain vases. "It's wonderful," he sighs. "Not what they send but the consideration behind...
...races-but the party's national face mattered too, and that face last week was still sour, its voice complaining and its attitude carping. Even National Chairman Guy Gabrielson himself reflected some of that mood. Retorting to the President's boast (see above), Gabrielson dourly undertook "to remind the American people . . . just what five years of Truman has meant to them," showing how the country was really in terrible shape. Cried Gabrielson: "The American people will not again be misled by slanders and libels . . . They will not again be beguiled by extravagant promises...