Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer, and if your consumer-biased articles help defeat future farmer-giveaway programs and rid the farming industry of the leeches, the inefficient marginal producers, I say good work. Let's give farming back to the farmers...
...mean: "grandchildren." The Spanish word for "relatives" is parientes-which looks like "parents," but the Spanish word for parents is padres. In Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means "pregnant." Your boner at least "hit the hammer with the nail...
...issue was as clear cut as any Republican could wish. It was the Fair Deal and its welfare state. The Republicans' John Foster Dulles did not say "yes, but-" or hint he could do it better; he declared bluntly that the Fair Deal was "statism," and he was against it. The Democrats' Herbert Lehman accepted the challenge headon: "If I go to Washington, I will work for a welfare state...
...Spears I'll have to McAfee by prognostication. Well, if justice Raines, and you Lohnes me five, I say Harvard 28 Yale...
...rally was lit by floodlights and punctuated by firecrackers. Hickman, Jackson, and Albie Booth, former Yale great, appeared to say a few words. Three female cheerleaders also showed up, with rally leaders explaining, "If Harvard...