Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military refused to say more. Thus, the public was left to its own wild guessing whether the "satellite vehicles" were to be "inhabited" or "uninhabited," and whether they were to serve as rocket-launching platforms or observation posts...
...Thanks for the Check." At Buffalo in August, he all but ran Porky Oliver off the course in the Western Open playoff; Hogan had seven birdies and an eagle for a course-record 64. Later when the committee asked him to say a few words, the story goes that Ben seemed reluctant. So a friend got up and said: "I travel with Ben Hogan quite a lot and he has a set speech for these occasions. It goes something like this, 'Thanks for the check...
...point from that which Niebuhr has raised . . . To put it quite simply, it was the different attitude to the Bible, from which we each take our start . . . I was struck by finding in our Anglo-Saxon friends a remarkable [tendency] . . . to theologise on their own account, that is to say, without asking on what biblical grounds one put forward this or that professedly 'Christian' view. They would quote the Bible according to choice . . . according as it appeared to them to strengthen their own view, and without feeling any need to ask whether the words quoted really have...
Benjy Britten seemed to have designed his apt but unexciting score to be unobtrusive, to let the words stand out. Poet Ronald Duncan's libretto had plenty of words-a male & female chorus moralized throughout-but it had too little to say and too little action. The rape scene got listeners on seat edge, but the other scenes slowed down to the speed of a grade-school tableau. Even the Herald Tribune's Thomson was disappointed: "There isn't enough music to hold the ear." Wrote his opposite number, Drama Critic Howard Barnes: "Music without a play...
...Profits had helped pay for expansion. An excess-profits tax would not only nip the expansion but, if the wartime formula was followed, would hit the most progressive companies hardest (Jersey Standard would pay more heavily than U.S. Steel). As Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said: "You can say so much against it [an excess-profit tax] that I have difficulty in understanding what anybody has to say...