Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors that Emperor Hirohito would soon step down from the throne were freely aired last week in the Japanese press. Said an Imperial Household spokesman: the stories were nonsense...
...American?" [TIME, May 10], after conjuring up the impressive shades of the British and Roman empires, reminds us that we are now "the greatest power on earth," to which the world looks "for hope and leadership." You then assure us that the U.S. citizen is "least of all a spokesman of imperialism...
Training by actual flight is expensive (over $500 an hour for a four-engine airliner), and not too satisfactory, either (as one airline spokesman put it delicately: "We hesitate to institute disaster conditions in a real, $1,500,000 airplane...
...that gahdam cox," was the implausible alibi of C. Colby Hewitt, Jr. '49, spokesman for the crew. "Not only did he weigh 149 pounds, but he was dragging his foot too. I was pulling the whole gahdam boat as it was, but that was just too much," he snarled...
What did the phrase mean? The U.S. citizen would vociferously deny that he was the subject of any government-even in name. His government belonged to him; what his nation did, it did only with his consent and by his will. He was least of all a spokesman of imperialism. But when thousands of U.S. school children celebrated "I Am an American Day" each spring, they spoke for the greatest power on earth...