Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were surprised that TIME, July 11 [in its report of the sweeping vindication of British press ownership by a Royal Commission] described the Daily Express as a "scandalmongering, penny paper." I cannot think that you would accept that as a true or fair description of the Daily Express...
Reluctantly, Acheson agreed to think it over. For a week he had sent his most eloquent lieutenants up Capitol Hill to argue for the bill exactly as it stood. Even General George Marshall had come out of retirement to give his measured, unequivocal assurance that the arms program stood foursquare with EGA and the Atlantic Treaty...
...America bare, throws across the footlights, flat in your face, all the hopes, fears, frustrations, inhibitions and terrible yearnings of a nation . . ." Stylish first-nighters, equally moved brought back Paul Muni (who played Willy) and his cast for 15 curtain calls. Said one sequined dowager: "I don't think I understood it all, but I certainly feel weak...
...asked your opinion of the performance, answer: 'The comments are very favorable, sir,' or 'I think you will enjoy...
...order to achieve this plan, Author Balchin believes, that Cesare schemed and wheedled troops from the French and raised his private horde of Swiss and Italian bandits. While his satiated father sat back weakly on his throne (some historians think, on the contrary, that Borgia senior was quite handy at murder), son Cesare stormed and conquered numerous fortresses in Italy. Men who got in his way were ruthlessly disposed of by his Spanish henchman, Don Michelotto, or quietly turned over to his bland and terrifying secretary, Agapito, who, in Author Balchin's version, sounds comically like P. G. Wodehouse...