Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eden was speaking to a mixed Allied and German audience in Berlin. Another speaker at the same meeting, Berlin's Social Democratic Leader Franz Neumann, noted that it was Bastille Day. The British translator, picking up Neumann's words, sentence by sentence, intoned: "And on this great French holiday in Berlin we honor the ideals of Fraternity, Equality and . . ."The audience roared as the harassed translator appealed in a whisper to Neumann for the third word. Neumann gave fire to the worn phrase by shouting in German: "We here in Berlin know what it is! Liberty...
...What is there to laugh at?" Bedlam broke loose in the Assembly. While a line of ushers kept them from getting at each other, Christian Democrats and Communists hurled pencils and pens at each other and screamed curses. When quiet was restored, De Gasperi, as usual, had the last word. He expressed his fervent hope for Togliatti's recovery and then said: "I can give assurance that the government's conduct in the near future will be based not only on comprehension and political wisdom but also on energy which a self-respecting government cannot do without...
...century's great composers makes his home in Hollywood-surrounded by the film colony, but no part of it. His presence sometimes makes film makers a little uneasy; maybe they're missing something. Every so often the word goes out to Igor Stravinsky-an austere, fastidious and independent little man-that a movie mogul wishes...
...many people have managed to wade through the six-volume, 160,000-word report of Harry Truman's Commission on Higher Education. One who has is Robert Maynard Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago. His comments, published in last week's Saturday Review of Literature, were, as usual, pungent and provocative. The commission, said he, "is confident that vices can be turned into virtues by making them larger. Its heart is in the right place; its head does not work very well...