Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to forfeit the advantage which our present detachment gives us." He predicted that capitalism and Marxism could not long endure in one world, and that whichever force was better able, morally and materially, "to deliver the goods" would in the end win out. But he did not say which of the two forces he considered better fit to deliver...
...until Christmas, if then. But Ed Bowling knows his way around, wherever he is. He got his visa O.K. in eight days and flew back to Helsinki. Last week Ed landed on Hoosier soil again with 13 samples of vodka, and gave his wife Myrtle a big hug. "They say that Moscow is the heaven of the Soviet," said Ed. "Well, if that's heaven, all I can say is it's a hell of a heaven...
...dompteur or wild animal tamer with Pinder's traveling circus. He was fired after his first appearance, when an elephant which he was supposed to lead around the ring refused to budge. Steinmann took his problem to a Paris lawyer who in turn took it to court. "To say," roared Lawyer Theodore Valensi, demanding 1,500,000 francs damages, "that a lion tamer cannot control an animal as docile as an elephant is the worst of insult...
...from Belgian Premier Gaston Eyskens. Together they had worked out an important political agreement. Eyskens would ask Parliament this week to hold a "popular consultation" on whether or not the King should return. If Leopold received less than 55% of the referendum votes, he would abdicate. He did not say what he would do if he got more than 55%. But it was plain that he would need a majority well over 55% before Parliament would actually agree to his return...
...political folly." If the King got less than 55% of the votes, said Spaak, the institution of the monarchy itself could be endangered. "The King would render the country an immense service," added Spaak, "if he agreed to abdicate. If this sacrifice is above his strength, the King could say he would return only with wide popular support . . . at least two-thirds of the whole country...