Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party. There was truth in this sarcasm. Some of the Labor Party's leaders were deeply suspicious of an intellectual who had no respect for Party discipline. But they were eager to retain one of the most brilliant legal minds in England. They made Cripps a member of Labor's Executive Committee-following the age-old British rule that "when a man is a nuisance the best way to make him behave properly is to burden him with responsibility." It was no go. When Cripps disagreed with his fellows over an issue of principle he simply resigned from...
...sarcasm did not bite. But many a plain citizen re-echoed General Marshall's grim comment that the Senate was giving Hitler a welcome, whistle-blown "time...
...first day at his desk (TIME, Oct. 12), when the shock of returning from the open spaces to bureau-cramped Washington led the President to lash at Congress, the press and his own officials. Only for the press and radio did he reserve a few lingering words of sarcasm: "I can say one thing about our [military] plans: they are not being decided by the typewriter strategists. . . ." He served notice that his future trips would be veiled in the same censorship which the press had objected to in this...
...behind the scenes, Hedgerow spoke its lines from the center of the stage. To influential citizens all over the country went letters asking for testimonials to help "change the minds" of draft officials. No replies were announced, but the Philadelphia papers last week loosed on Hedgerow a flood of sarcasm and censure for getting too big for its Army boots...
Expected Scorn. But Hitler needed his sarcasm, too, to cover up the weak points in the German record. He paid a scornful tribute to the astounding fighters who were giving him his greatest opposition. "The blessed land of the totalitarians and of the peasants," he said, "unfortunately has no roads or only fragments of roads. Thus we have to build roads. Some said: 'Well, the Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that...