Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his years as a stock-market speculator, Baruch feels that he gleaned something more valuable than gold, a kind of golden mean of inspired common sense: "Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to try to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself, 'Two and two still make four, and no one has ever invented a way of getting something for nothing.' When the outlook is steeped in pessimism I remind myself, 'Two and two still make four, and you can't keep mankind down for long...
...them, Author Zilliacus has an encouraging message: the love that really matters is not that between men and women, but the love of God. A Roman Catholic convert, she also looses repeated salvos against the materialism of her upbringing. In abandoning Marxism, she has unfortunately retained the hectoring manner of Marxist argument: "You're afraid of the fact that pain is an inevitable adjunct of life, for man as he is at the moment. That fear even leads you to deny the very existence of God Himself. Oh, you don't have to explain. I was brought...
...line between national danger on the one hand and excessive expenditure on the other," he said the next night on TV. "If it is materially cut, I believe the country would be taking a needless gamble ... To this kind of problem I have devoted most of my life. I repeat my earnest belief that the estimate in the budget for our military forces, atomic energy and stockpiling . . . represents a defense program which is as nearly accurate, in present circumstances, as it is humanly possible to make...
...National Press Club last week, President Diem talked earnestly on three themes. Time and again he thanked the U.S. for its outpouring of "moral and material aid," without which Viet Nam could not have "overcome the chaos brought about by the war and the Geneva accords . . I could not repeat too often how much the Vietnamese people are grateful for American aid." Unequivocally he denounced Red China and Russia: "Since Communism is not neutral, we cannot be neutral...
...beer a month in the U.S., signed one deal to deliver 82,000 cases in the next year. Textilemaker Maya de Mexico sold the output of its entire plant for the coming year. And the overall statistic was enough to make the show's backers schedule a repeat performance next year: orders at the fair totaled about $1 billion...