Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look at our apple trees and say, 'My, my, just look at all those dollars hanging on the trees.' They think we just sat on the porch and watched them grow. They don't know that a lot of good hard work has gone into that orchard...
...appeared, could go down as well as up. He could go all the way down to Buchenwald, and beyond that to the place where he could say he did not know whether he or another was guilty of Buchenwald. Without World War II's dreadful lesson of evil, Western man would not have been able to recognize Communism's evil, even cloudily...
...years after, four years after, the free world could hardly be said to have a new path, a new way of its own. But paths, they say in New England, are made by going around rocks. The Western world had found what it wanted to avoid. In the warlike peace, it had discovered a little of a new pride in its old standards. It had almost learned new humility in which the Germans and the Japanese, for all the evil they had done, might become comrades in the struggle against evil...
...will speak English," he said. "I only speak a little but we will get on." He beckoned me to sit down in a large armchair, leaned over and asked me cheerfully: "What do they say in America about my fight with the Cominform?" I replied: "They are very much interested, but they would like to know much more about it." Tito smiled and dropped the subject...
...write a lot too in Siberia." I asked him if he wrote in longhand. Tito nodded. "You ought to try a dictating machine," I suggested. "You fasten a microphone to your shirt. You can then pace the room, and when you think of those wonderful sentences you simply say them aloud." Tito changed the subject. But later his doctor grabbed me when we were alone. "What is it called, this new machine you fasten to your shirt?" he asked. "The Marshal wants...