Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...donkey. The Greek watched in mystified silence for some time, and then asked the American what he was up to. "Measuring the shortest distance between this point and that village over there," explained the American. "Well," the peasant muttered half to himself, "that certainly seems a complicated way to do such a simple job." "Is that so?" asked the engineer. "And just how would you go about it?" "Well," said the Greek, "I'd just let this ass loose and tell him to go home. He'd take the shortest road." "Oh," said the engineer, "and what would...
...unresolved in China, is also unresolved in China's Chiang. He had been right so often, when those around him were wrong, that taking advice did not come easily to him. Three times-from Canton, from Sian, and from Chungking-he had fought his way out of hopeless situations. Such an experience might breed arrogance, and many believe that Chiang is arrogant, narrow, unimaginative-the victim of his own frozen will...
...never hear the one that hits you," the soldiers say. This observation, both comforting and terrifying, applies also to the great nations and civilizations now on history's casualty lists. When disaster comes they are looking the other way, or else they are certain that the disaster does not matter to them...
...special effort will be made to help him in his extremity, nor will the U.S. pressure him to step down and make way for anyone else...
Early one morning last week, Sta-vroula's body was discovered in a courtyard three floors below a prison window. To squeeze through the tiny window on her way to death, Stavroula had had to remove her costly fur coat and Paris dress...