Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yourself:! was going to say-I'm sorry...
...more advanced students of Lifemanship, Potter offers the Question Gambit and the "What a Pity" Probe, but for all-round utility, he recommends "plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...
...This," notes Potter, "is the lightest of trips; yet if properly managed the tone of voice can suggest that you can afford to say the obvious thing because you have approached your conclusion the hard way, through a long apprenticeship of study...
Yourself: I was only going to say that though I was never in Vladivostok, I did spend some months in Munster Lager, not a million miles away ... Of course, I was working as a stevedore among the dockers and porters-I didn't see much of the higher-ups I'm afraid. But Lord, I feel I understood the people-the cutters and the quay cleaners, the dossmen...
...MacArthur not only says it, he gets away with it-in that he carries at least the conviction that he believes what he says. He recalls a very American vanishing type-the philosopher-politician who has been a trial lawyer. His is the manner of the leader of the state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart...