Word: sic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...laxness of our State Department and its individually indolent members has led to one Russian fait accompli after another from Berlin and Vienna to Seoul and Peiping, and the jelly-spined attitude of America's "diplomats" (sic) allows Russia to dare to plot still other grabs and double-faced deals. . . . Now, in 1946, is the time to give Stalin, Molotov & Co. to understand that this nation will tolerate no ambitions of world conquest...
...Hayes: Then let them go on relief at $21.50 (sic) a week...
...than 1 Ib. of meat a week. ... It is even true that over a period of years our diet is inadequate to maintain proper fitness and resistance to disease. Add to this fuel rationing, sky-high prices and acute housing shortage, and you will appreciate that for a victorious (sic) nation our position is not pleasant...
...miles of wicked winter flying over north China. In less than a week he visited ten cities and towns, whirled through inspections, receptions and 15-course banquets, heard himself extolled by banner-waving greeters as "Terror of the Evildoers. . . . First Lord of the Warlords. . . . Most Fairly [sic] Friend of China." He also rubbed out most of the trouble spots...
Some critics recalled that Bach himself had been content with a choir of 17 voices. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "Any chorus of 200 can make a majestic noise; and Mr. Ifor's [sic] chorus makes the most agreeable, the most brilliant and bright-sounding choral fortissimo I have ever heard. . . . But how much richer and grander it would be if Mr. Jones would cut his chorus down about 80 per cent and his orchestra by half...