Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned. At a brilliant dinner (among the guests: Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Railroader Robert Young, Publisher Eugene Meyer), Johnson introduced Nehru as "a man of rare truth." Nehru rose to speak, as usual seeming only to be thinking out loud. "I am a child of the mountains . . ." he said. "Sometimes you are on the mountaintops and can see the fields and the sun. Then, often enough, you are in the valley, but you can see the mountaintop. That is enough. I had been told, I must confess, that most Americans are very hard, very businesslike. I have found no hard side...
...helped slit the beasts' nostrils so that bleeding would keep their arteries from bursting. She swatted maggots from the festering wounds torn by saddle ropes on the animals' sides. Nausea, dizziness, frostbite and insomnia meanwhile began to affect the travelers themselves. "It made us feel like idiots," said Vincoe. In 18,600-foot Karakoram Pass, the sun burned their faces, and their tea froze before they could drink...
Were Macao's days now numbered? Would the Chinese Reds seize it? Back in Lisbon, Premier Salazar said: "It remains to be seen whether reason will be able to avoid violence and whether the path of respect, of rights and of conciliation of interests can be found." More than a month ago, Lisbon sent reinforcements to Governor Oliveira's garrison...
Whistling in the Dark? Unlike the British in Hong Kong, the Portuguese say they have little to fear from agitation inside the colony. For years there has been a small Communist cell in Macao, perhaps 200 intellectuals, mostly doctors, lawyers and teachers. "We have them spotted," said a Portuguese police official. "They loathe to mix with the lower classes, so we don't have to worry too much about them." On China's "Double Tenth" only six Communist flags flew in Macao, despite the fact that the colony has one factory openly manufacturing the flags for export...
...Marquot among his workers. Against the eerie background of a dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much room, but the workers never got in each other's way. Said the capitaliste éclairé, "It is all a matter of going to the right place at the right speed at the right time...