Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers," he said. "Now I don't want you should get the wrong impression-I never sold any Bibles." But he insisted that he obeyed the law. "There they all are wit' their shotguns waiting for me to come out of a hole like a rabbit. You think I could get away with anything? It's ridiculous...
...mortgaging his alfalfa-planted ranch in Tishomingo in the Chickasaw country. Bill never thought much about money, and never got his money back. The suggestion was made in Oklahoma's first legislature that the state reimburse him, but Bill, scowling over his handlebar mustaches, didn't think that would be "circumspect": he was the legislature's speaker. "Let's leave it to some succeeding administration," said Alfalfa Bill...
Churchill bluntly challenged Prime Minister Clement Attlee to send Parliament home and set the election for early in 1950. Attlee, slumped on the government front bench and looking funereal in his black coat and neat striped trousers, seemed not to hear. But London political dopesters now think the election will be held earlier than Labor had planned. Best guess: February or March...
Connolly was frank to say that he did not think they would. Founded in 1939 with the money of dairy-fortune heir Peter Watson and the brains of waspish, cherubic Editor Connolly and Poet Stephen Spender, Horizon never reached more than 10,000 subscribers, though it was probably the best of the little magazines. Lately circulation and advertising had been slipping and costs rising. More important, the galaxy of literary lights who had once brightened its pages-T. S. Eliot, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh-have not shown there in the last year...
Last week New York University's School of Education reported that 26 graduate students were taking the nation's first collegiate course in writing comic books. Reason for the course: since most U.S. schoolchildren (and most adults) read comics, N.Y.U. had begun to think that U.S. educators better learn how to produce constructive ones...