Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When you get there you have to forget this Socialist Government of Great Britain. It is the government of Great Britain, and you do not criticize it. But when you get back, you make up for lost time." Author-Orator Churchill will also have something to say in the twelfth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, due in November-60 entries on his debut (Franklin Roosevelt's total will rise from...
...necessarily adhere to any particular sect . . ."*Was he planning to make any drastic changes? Replied Ike carefully: "I hope to become a useful member of the community, of which, frankly, I have always been frightened. It is going to be quite a task for me. I have nothing to say about education. I don't know enough about it. Right now, I'm a recruit around the place-I guess I should say I'm a freshman...
Said General Ike: "These gentlemen . . . are trying to find out why we don't manage to understand each other. It is not enough to say that a few men in the Kremlin will deny to a large number of people the chance to learn. It is not enough to say that our motives, which we think of as altruistic and pure, "are certainly misunderstood in South America . . . Now we must find out why we are misunderstood ... If the London Congress [begins] the solution of this problem . . . we will be doing a great deal to eliminate the causes...
Delegate Testa will do his best to have at least three holy places-Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth-internationalized and placed under U.N. mandate. Contact man with U.N. for the negotiations will be New York's Cardinal Archbishop Spellman. Once the Palestine question is settled, say Vatican officials, a gradual extension of Cardinal Spellman's U.N. middle-maneuvering "is not unlikely...
...defined natural trivia, e.g., "They sat on an ironwood tree's outcropping roots, roots tangled like gray fingers in wild interplay with Medusa's hair." It tends to make the reader suspect that the author is sentimentally fond of writing, but unfortunately finds himself with nothing or little to say about people or events. Generally, although not necessarily, authors with something to say take care to say it clearly...