Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atrocity stories were backed up by harangues on the theme that Italian immigrants have provided "the most solid working arms and the most capable brains on the North American Continent; . . . now the Americans are coming back over your ports and cities to repay you with bullets and to spread death and destruction." For Italo-Americans abroad the Fascists provided another line, easily picked up by the cheapest short-wave radio: Mussolini was forced to enter World War II because Britain would not grant the "just demands" of the Italian people for "freedom from fear." This ancient outcry comes from...
...huge Rhinebeck estate where he spent an occasional weekend, he wrote: "If I had one tenth what those people have, I'd be a great man ten years quicker." He still felt anguish at being in his mother's debt; he hoped to repay her and assert his superiority by the little boy's revenge of becoming famous. "I shall be great -if I do not die too soon - and you will be known as my mother." During a 1924 trip through Europe he pleaded: "Please, if you are able, stand by me a little longer...
...March, also, the R.A.F. celebrated its 25th anniversary. Britain's great Air Force, up from nothing since World War I (see p. 98), was strong enough in its maturity to repay Germany in kind for London and Coventry. How strong would it have to be-could any air force ever be strong enough-to knock Germany...
...justice, to reject all desire for vengeance; to seek God's forgiveness for any hatred we may harbor; and, without shrinking from the harshest duty imposed upon us by our consciences under God, to remain ever mindful that He alone may say, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay...
...Francisco Chronicle's editor, Chester H. Rowell, thus gauged Pacific Coast sentiment: "We want to sell goods for money, and will even lend our customers the money to buy them at the risk that they may not pay the debt in cash. But to let them repay with their own goods, which might compete in our markets with our products, goes against our whole habit of thinking...