Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chair. Cockeye Dunn's family wanted him to sing, too, but he refused. As for Sheridan, who had tried in court to take all the blame for the murder and had even testified that killing was "just like ordering a cup of coffee," there was never any thought of squealing...
Stopped cold, Van Zeeland stepped out. Regent Charles next asked a less ardent Leopoldist Catholic, Frans van Cauwelaert, to sound out the parties. This time the Socialists cautiously thought they might accept if certain stiff conditions were met: 1) a public statement of charges against the King and his defense; 2) requirement of a 70-75% majority in the plebiscite before the King could return; 3) if the King fails of this majority, he must abdicate...
...role as warrior-king in World War I, Albert once wrote to France's famed Marshal Joffre: "I listened to the generals and it seemed to me a great responsibility to decide between their different plans, so I would just pick out the one that I thought made the most sense...
...fiasco he says: "I must have been out of my mind. I thought I'd just walk in and they'd point the camera at me. You have to cope with 16 people with things on their minds like making chalk marks on the floor . . . The director tells the cameraman to move to the right and he says, 'You mean your right or my right...
Only five delegates (with the backing of Prof. Herbert H. Phillips, recently fired from, the University of Washington as a party member) thought that Communists had any place in teaching. The other 2,882 delegates thought otherwise, and so the N.E.A. voted to bar Communists from both the profession and the association. "At the same time," said the resolution, "we condemn the careless . . . use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers . . . who merely have views different from those of their accusers...