Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists managed it no one in the West knows. (To this day no one knows the secret of the 1937 purge trial confessions in Russia.) Somehow they broke Joseph Mindszenty, man of burning courage. Somehow they made him say things he had denied with the utmost vehemence, and with full knowledge of the consequences, until his arrest 40 days before...
...even in their years of dictatorship did Mussolini and Hitler dare display their pictures in their stage-managed parliaments. I was about to say that I did not know of a single case where this is so, but I am mistaken. There is a small country in the Antilles, a small, unfortunate country in which the President re-elects himself time after time-the republic of Santo Domingo. Its national parliament is presided over by the photograph of Dictator General Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo." Cries of "May bien, muy bien" and loud applause rang through the chamber...
...President's civil rights program as "mongrelization of the races." Excerpts: "The real Democratic party in Mississippi will never be dominated by renegades, lickspittles, opportunists, carpetbaggers, and deserters of the white race. And, if President Truman thinks [Mississippi Democrats] intend to meekly bow down to him ... we say with all earnestness and fervor-'Go to hell, Harry...
...title comes from Churchill's address to the House of Commons on June 18, 1940: "Let us therefore address ourselves to our duty, so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years men will say, 'This was their finest hour...
...which have made him one of the world's richest men. Impassive and aloof as the statuettes he collects, Gulbenkian neither confirms nor denies the stories that describe him variously as a descendant of Armenian kings, an ex-Turkish rug peddler, a lace merchant. He will say little more about his tastes in art, except that he has been collecting old masters, sculpture, rare books, Greek coins and Persian rugs since early in the century...