Word: surely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happily climbed aboard his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He would make a "nonpolitical, bipartisan speech," he declared with a grin. What was that? Said Truman genially: "It is a speech that throws no bricks at any other political party." Big Bill Boyle, national Democratic chairman, beamed concurrence. "Sure," said Bill. "I'm along to see that he doesn't do anything political." Both were almost overcome with the humor...
...Sherman made the little speech expected on such occasions, his voice was so low that he could be heard only with difficulty. He was sure, he said, that he would have the help and support of officers who were in the room, and of all in the Navy. There was a dead silence when he concluded. When the ceremony was over, many admirals pointedly went downstairs to applaud Admiral Denfeld on his way out of the building...
...flew homeward this week, Americans were still far from sure what the truth was that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stood for; but they sensed in him, if not rare truth, a rare heart...
Said one worker about his boss: "He knows his job and so do we-that's what matters . . . Sure, I believe the world is moving irresistibly toward socialism." Then he added: "But if all the factories were like this, maybe it wouldn...
...Challenge Trophy, when two Chileans faulted. That left only four competitors for the trophy-all members of the Mexican team. One by one the three veteran riders started on the course, then pulled their horses up sharply for a refusal so that young Lieut. D'Harcourt would be sure to bag his first Garden trophy...