Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family. When the President died, she turned down the pension awarded her by the government, so that the money might be used for needier war widows and orphans. Even the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, who spread terror through the hills of Central Luzon, could find no word to say against Doña Aurora...
...best academic talent available. He campaigned (though without success) to get the system of political scholarships replaced by a competitive plan. He deprived his deans of their arbitrary power over faculty hiring & firing. He revived faculty meetings, and for the first time in years, gave professors and instructors a say in running the university...
Flanked by Lady Beecham, he turned up at a reception, received a 15-lb. cake from the U.S.'s RCA Victor, replied to a toast by apologizing for not having anything cutting to say ("It is only before vast audiences that I let myself...
...them in on the anatomy of his vitriol: "There is something about a large gathering that brings out my basest instincts. Before a crowd of 1,000, I am malicious. Before 5,000, I am positively evil, and, facing a crowd of 10,000, I am compelled to say the most abominable things...
...Ghost." He explained last week: "Generally the woman of the house will come to the door protesting, 'What's all the noise? Ain't it enough to knock once?' When we explain who we are and why we've knocked three times, they usually say, 'Well, you can't stand out there in the rain all night. Come...