Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumably, too, the Administration was dead set against another round of wage increases (see BUSINESS), but it just couldn't bring itself to say so. In trying to write around this painful subject, the President's economic advisers composed some masterful doubletalk. Sample: At the present time both employers and workers should strive to work out adjustments which will help to stimulate activity, bearing in mind the need both for holding business costs down and for maintaining consumer purchasing power at high levels...
...Murphy began, Stryker leaned back and closed his eyes, trying hard to look bored. Before long he was sitting forward, listening closely. "Let's see if we can't apply reason and not emotion," Murphy began quietly. "You can't say 'I don't like the guy, I don't like the way he combs his hair, and I wouldn't believe him on a stack of Bibles.' You have to apply reason...
Commander in chief of the exercise was 5-ft.-4-in. Sir Rhoderick ("Wee Mac") McGrigor, commander of Britain's Home Fleet. Said he: "The object of these maneuvers is to show that we are willing and able to work together in case of aggression . . . I can say straight away that it's been a very great success...
...against Knehl, of the Ministry of Interior, we warn against . . ." Twice a week, the station puts on a regular program identifying Communist spies. To grateful East zone Germans, the broadcasts meant that the U.S. cared enough to help them. Within two weeks, 200 people had risked writing RIAS to say thanks...
Mencken, with practiced cynicism, once tried to figure himself out. In a piece called Sabbath Meditation he said: "My essential trouble, I sometimes suspect, is that I am quite devoid of what are called spiritual gifts. That is to say, I am incapable of religious experience, in any true sense ... I dislike any man who is pious, and all such men that I know dislike me." The Chrestomathy is liberally sprinkled with his truculent gibes at all faiths, but none feel his unsparing rod more often than the Methodists and Baptists ("As for the Methodists, the Baptists and other such...