Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Austerity. No backslapper, Marjolin was gaining the confidence of Congressmen last week by telling about his student days at Yale. He was honest enough to say that he does not expect Europe to be able to paddle its canoe by 1952, the year in which Marshall Plan aid is scheduled to end. Production in Europe is now almost as high as before the war, but Europe's plight is not solely due to the havoc of two wars and the fear of a third. It is partly due to a shift of economic forces (against Europe) which...
...harsh answer. From mid-afternoon until late at night on the day Communist peace terms were broadcast, Chiang summoned his advisers. He called for T. V. Soong to return from the south. Elder Statesman Carson Chang, author of much of the new constitution which the Reds say must be scrapped, hurried up from Shanghai. While the Gimo conferred, Nanking surged with discussion of the Communist terms...
Last week in Washington, Agustin Merlo phoned the society to say that the Maria Eva Duarte de Péron Social Assistance Foundation of Argentina had been pleased to send enough clothes for 600 of the poor children of Washington. Told that the State Department had no objections, Mrs. Fay Vawters, co-director of the Society, said bravely: "We are going to accept [the gift] with all the grace that God in his mercy can bestow upon us." Evita had made the most of her chance...
...sudden grimness developed at Peiping, now in its 30th day of siege, but the form it took cannot be divulged. The censor is obdurate. He is not convinced that the facts he is trying to conceal will sooner or later leak out . . . Let the censor explain why you cannot say a shell exploded about 100 feet from the office where two Americans were working . . . Let him explain why you cannot say other shells exploded . . . Finally, let the censor answer the question, 'If the Reds shell a city, do they or don't they know...
...doors for a week at a time," Murch says. "Then I'll take a walk and look around vaguely for something to paint. The other day I found a dog's head at a taxidermist's. It was a fox terrier mounted on the wall like a moose." He generally finds what he is looking for in shop windows: "For instance that fish in the show. I'd been wanting to do a fish for years but there were practical difficulties, you might say. This one was smoked. It lasted over a week and a half...