Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family left for work, the police would come. There would be two plain-clothes men, with a list of names supplied by the Ministry of the Interior, and a uniformed cop. They would ask for the head of the family (or perhaps a grown son). All they would say in answer to questions was that the man was to come with them and that he should bring warm clothes. Before they left they would take the license and papers of his car, and they would type a sample of his typewriter...
Navy and Stanford University. Burdick felt disillusioned about Oxford and had decided to say why in print...
...with fiery light. Had he known it would come out so well? "No," said Matisse, "I didn't-I'm not a bluffer. Emotions within us lead us to create. The artist works and arrives at a moment when there is an explosion ... I can't say why in this case the colors happened to be so subtle and harmonious...
...what I'd been struggling all these years to create. My work may seem more joyful than in the past but it's exactly what I was trying to do 50 years ago. It has taken me that long to arrive at the stage where I can say what I want to say...
Adman Bruce Barton (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) knows just how he sells products and ideas: "Say it simply, say it over & over, say it in one-syllable words." He rates the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the Gettysburg Address as triumphs of simplicity and brevity: each contains fewer than 500 words, mostly of one and two syllables. Last week Adman Barton was getting ready to turn out a new weekly column of personal and social comment for Hearst's King Features. It will be written in no more than 500 words, mostly...