Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time. Much better it would have been had I been taken out of school at the age of 14 and put to work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless junk that the educational experts thought I should be filled with...
Whatever rewards world leadership might return in the long run, they would not be reaped until the hold of want and oppression on the world's throat was broken. The country's decision to break it was the vastest gamble in peacetime history. George Marshall's estimate-"calculated risk"-meant in soldier's language that it could be won, if all went well, if the most powerful nation in the world threw all its physical and moral strength into the fight...
Said one Japanese to a U.S. reporter last week: "I used to think Tojo should be hanged. Now I don't know. If we had won we would have tried the Americans." Said another: "When you people have left these islands, the Japanese will again return to traditional worship of exalted human beings. First to be enshrined will be Hideki Tojo...
Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...
...Michael, it was a cluttered courtship. When he left London he had decided not to return to his Communist-dominated country. In Lausanne, and in love, his throne assumed a new look. Reports said that he had requested his Communist-run government's permission to marry; his request had been approved in principle, but turned down as untimely. Michael's future as history's only Communist-dominated king still had to be decided...