Word: telle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fanatics, then, is not surprising. Indeed, there are many who become entranced with the mere watching of this process, although they do not trust themselves to play. Ask these people-both the players and the watchers-whether the pinball machine is a mere frivolity. Far from that, they will tell you, this invention is one of the most profound and marvelous of the machine age: it is a thing which can restore the soul and give evidence of things unseen...
...Stimson to head the War Department, Republican Frank Knox to be Secretary of the Navy. The move had obvious political advantages to Roosevelt, but he was also mindful of Hitler's sweep through Europe, and wanted the services of Stimson and Knox. It would be hard to tell who was angrier: the Republicans or Johnson. But he was still nursing another ambition: to be Vice President. Two weeks after the first blow fell he was shunted aside again at the Democratic Convention in favor of Henry Wallace. The end had come...
...Maximum. The different planes from which West and East looked down on Germany became more evident as the week wore on. The courtesy wilted steadily. By Thursday night the talks had reached the level of restrained acerbity. The three Western powers were asking Russia to quit stalling and tell precisely what it wanted out of the conference that it had requested as a condition for lifting the Berlin blockade. Vishinsky was snapping back that no one could "impose" on him any topics of discussion...
...nine years I went to different prisons," she says, "taking him food and clean clothes. He likes to be tidy and neat." Now she is denied even that. No word comes to her from Nico himself and only a very occasional note from his Czech wife Mania to tell Erato that all is well with...
...First thing is Ten Commandments of God. This thing we put in their mind-we repeat it, repeat it, repeat it. After that, they believe it. After that, we tell them aboui Jesus, who love us and come down to save the world. We tell them this love -so everyone no fighting, must love one another...