Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alluded disparagingly to our coverage of the Philippines and Bolivia. I could burden you with documentation on the painstaking job of professional reporting that backed up the stories in question, but I will say simply this: we have seen no evidence that we were wrong in either case...
TACOMA NEWS-TRIBUNE : Say what you will of her reasons for resigning, her statement of them was forthright and plausible enough. Over and above the fact that Morse's ugly words had smeared her. she noted that Morse is chairman of the subcommittee on Latin American affairs, and that in the embassy she could expect no support from the chairman. It seems she has set the Senator from Oregon a splendid example. He should resign as chairman of the subcommittee...
...wish to disclose something here. The Premier's parents were always trying to get him to marry, but his personality was so strong no one could bring pressure to bear on him. I was his relative and dared approach him. He would say: 'Fadhil, I have an objective.' I knew his objectives were connected with a great revolution. After the revolution his sincere friends hoped that he might get married. His answer was that there were objectives that remained to be achieved. The Premier eats little, sleeps little and works hard though he is ill sometimes...
...Mahdawi favored the audience with a history of May Day, said that labor movements paltered along in places like Britain until "the emergence of the Communist Party and the great Soviet Union, sincere friend of our democratic republic." When the applause died down, Defense Counsel Zainab popped up to say: "If my defense of the People's Court and the Iraqi people means that I am a Communist, then I have the honor to be so." Mahdawi read the verdicts amid a storm of applause: six officers to be shot, nine officers and the civilian sentenced for life...
Tight Pants. But such is the faith of British rock 'n' rollers-to say nothing of British wives-that Terry seems to have lost the loyalty of neither. One night last week, with five MPs guarding the doors and bobbies examining all fans for concealed tomatoes and eggs, Terry Dene appeared before a packed movie house in Derby. Dressed in a long, pale jacket and skin-tight pants, he began his hip-flinging comeback with Just One More Chance. There were hoots from angry men ("Get back in the army"), but the whoops from the ecstatic girls drowned...