Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What do Europeans think about America? And who cares...
...General Hu Chia-yi, former Mukden garrison commander. He had left Mukden on the last Chinese Air Force plane to get off in the last few days before Mukden's fall. His force of 500 military police was the city's only defense. What did he think of the government strategy in Manchuria? He hesitated. "Pu-tui-ti" (Mistaken), he said, and resumed his pacing...
...hard enough to see my way clearly as it is." When the Regent Prince Charles asked him to form a new government, Spaak resisted: "With the U.N., the chairman ship of O.E.E.C., Western military union and the direction of Belgium's Foreign Office, don't you think that's enough for one man?" But he finally gave in, promised to try to form a new coalition cabinet. Sensible Belgians agreed with a tart observation made by the Brussels newspaper, Nation Belge: "To save two heads, the government was decapitated. Was it worth...
...going alone to Miami . . .? Don't worry. You'll have no trouble meeting an attractive American girl, avid for company and distraction. But don't think you are in Cuba. After the dance, the drinks and the laughs, she will tell you she's sleepy . . . and there ends the night of adventure. Perhaps there are persons who have better luck, but that's the rule...
Toughest of all were the backwoods villages, where farmers suspected a gringo plot to poison their animals, and priests preached against interference with God's will. There the Apostles used any methods they could think of, giving more movie shows, bringing friends of local farmers from other villages to argue for them. In the village of Tula, Jalisco, when all else failed, the Apostles hauled in a load of pulque and set up free drinks. Next morning the villagers awoke with roaring hangovers, found that all their cattle had been vaccinated...