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...bringing sandwiches to the committee room said, "If I'd a known this was for you people. I'd a never brung it." The townspeople of Attica and most of upstate New York shared this hostility: they thought the observers had no business negotiating with those "murderers, rapists, and scum"--they weren't "normal people like you and I," a guard's wife told a reporter...
...History of United States Foreign Policy Since World War I. In an introduction, Political Analyst Richard H. Rovere acknowledges the ability of certain cartoons to provide "flashes of extraordinary insight and political prescience." In this category he places a David Low cartoon of 1939. Hitler bows to Stalin: "The scum of the earth, I believe." Stalin returns the courtesy: "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume." Recalls Rovere: "It took most of us more than 20 years to catch up with the truth captured by Low-that where ideology and national interest are in conflict, national interest prevails...
Alleging that Nixon's "most intimate associates are the very scum of our society," Sale urged the American people to "send Nixon back to Whittier, Calif., where he and Pat will be condemned to live with each other for the rest of their lives...
...result, many felt compelled to serve the Germans in order to survive. Solzhenitsyn is careful to distinguish between degrees of collaboration. Some "scum" joined the Nazi polizei. Ukrainians, Latvians and other national groups, deeply embittered by Soviet persecution, joined Waffen SS divisions. The so-called "Russian Army of Liberation"* held the pitiful belief that a German victory would enable them to bring democracy to Russia. Other P.O.W.s escaped the Nazis to fight with the Soviet partisans or try to rejoin the Red Army. Whether scum or hero, all received the same sentence when they returned home: ten years...
...camp. At first Khrushchev praised One Day, but in March 1963 he told a meeting of party leaders and intellectuals: "Take my word for it, this is a very dangerous theme. It's a kind of stew that will attract flies like a carcass; all sorts of bourgeois scum from abroad will come crawling all over...