Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy parts of this press conference is that I learned over the radio this morning what it was about," he said. "That seemed to me to be a triumph of modern journalism . . . I think my function ought to be to live up to the advance report. I understood that you were going to question me about Point Four of the President's address [the spread of U.S. industrial techniques throughout the world] and so . . . I might as well plunge into that...
...kids" of the girls back home. "I just wonder if she isn't sort of running around with . . . 4-Fs . . ." It suggested ". . . throw down those little old guns and toddle off home . . . there's no getting the Germans down . . ." "What," it asked, "will [wounded men] think in later years when there are no jobs for cripples...
Hideout. For two years-which police think he spent at a hideout in Philadelphia-Carr wrote for Communist papers in Britain and the U.S. When Russia had been in the war over a year, Carr gave himself up to the Mounties. After a ten-day internment he was released on his promise to stay out of Communist activities...
...Eliot, 60, got a nice hand from one of his elders. "I think we all ought to be glad," observed Somerset Maugham, 75, "to have lived long enough to read his poetry...
...silent husbands are not always indifferent. Reported one: "'My wife is very serious concerning her religious beliefs. I too have my religious beliefs, but I think that it is best not to discuss them. I do not discuss my beliefs with the people upstairs or with my wife. They all go to church, but I stay home and say nothing...