Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio's Republican John M. Vorys, a powerful coalition set out to slice the Administration's two-year plan for Western Europe in half. "If you want a two-year program," said Richards, "let's allow for the first year and then come back and take a look...
...Sneers," "Warning to Americans," "They Are Slinging Mud at Britain." Tory Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had its own summary of these goings-on, and it was all but unique in Britain: "Judging by the undignified outburst of hysterical resentment...it looks as though all we can take today is dollars. But criticism? Never...
...Take a Sunny Morning. The eyes that finally see through Max to his sad and waif-like soul are the sleepy eyes of Mrs. Morgan's 18-year-old son Jimmy. An epileptic and a problem child who refuses to believe anything his tutors tell him about basic trends or the continuity of Western culture, Jimmy wears his mother down until she opens the nursery door, lets him go along with Divver on a trip to the Polish Corridor in the summer...
...doesn't take Max Divver long to demonstrate what a lost soul he is. Then, in his shame, he unburdens himself to Jimmy, confessing bitterly that he really loves his wife, that he doesn't give much of a damn for the working class, doesn't believe in Forces or in any of the things he. has pretended to believe in, and wishes to God that he had never been educated and could say what he thinks...
...Take Casanova. While Max goes off to get drunk and pick a fist fight with a Nazi, Jimmy is left alone to conduct-or be conducted in-his first love affair. Later that night, as he stands trembling in his mistress' closet listening to the husband's unexpected return, then as he flees naked down the hotel corridor, clutching his evening shoes and dinner coat, he remembers Casanova and realizes in a flash that this is what his tutors were talking about -the continuity of Western culture...