Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another Think Coming. Trim and confident, Mr. Truman stood up. Harry Vaughan, he said, had been his friend since they were soldiers together at Fort Sill in 1917. Everybody in the room knew that he loved wisecracking Harry Vaughan, and that he despised Drew Pearson, whom he once called a liar.† Once, Pearson wrote some critical remarks about Mrs. Truman and Margaret; the President never forgave...
...just as fond of and just as loyal to my military aide as I am to the high brass, and I want you to distinctly understand that any S.O.B. who thinks he can cause any of those people to be discharged by me by some smart-aleck statement over the air or in the paper, he has got another think coming...
...newspapers, having spread the initials on their front pages, dutifully clucked about it on their editorial pages. A few gave it cautious approval. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch applauded: "We can well understand the President's use of the term S.O.B. as applied to a certain showman and think that, considering all the circumstances, it was very well applied." There was no great outcry from churchmen and no noticeable explosion from the public, all of which caused the anti-New Dealing New York Sun's George Sokolsky to complain virtuously: "The reaction to the President's language...
Little Miss Echo. She described him as a man "who loved the mountains [of Silesia] with the intensity that a man might love a woman." In 1943 he went there to think about Miss Gillars (he had a wife and three children) and there found that "God favored his love." After that, she echoed his ideas like an empty barrel on a hog caller's porch. Since he was anti-British, anti-Jewish and anti-Roosevelt, she had said some rather hard things on the radio...
...Administration in charge of Dining Halls has not been asleep to possible improvements in the meal contract system, nor is it, as some would think, hostile to the clubs. The University must consider the effect of a change on the majority of undergraduates, and the optional contract system would mean a considerable increase of meal costs to that majority, without effecting any substantial saving to the minority. College-wide, the interests of the undergraduate are best served by maintaining the 21 meal requirement...