Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into a waiting microphone, Marshall spoke a brief message: "This is my first real view of Russia and the Russian people, except for a brief period at remote Yalta." His blue eyes twinkled at the word "remote," as though it could be taken to mean not only Yalta's distance in time & space, but also the remoteness of Yalta's mood of fatuous confidence. That afternoon, Ernie Bevin, 66 that day, dropped in on Molotov, who had turned 57 on the same day; the double birthday party was not festive...
...habits (Russian diplomats usually work till late into the night); the Secretary grinned and said: "I have a great many important things to settle here and I do not intend embarking on anything I don't have to. Besides, the Russians might object to your use of the word 'reform...
Next day tempers flared again. Winston Churchill took a lacing when he interrupted a backbencher. Said the Speaker: "You cannot gate-crash." Churchill, white with anger, protested that gate-crashing was a nasty word and its application to him was "wholly unwarranted." The Speaker said he was "very sorry...
After Germany fell, the 705 began to lean hard on their Brazilian citizenship. They drifted into D.P. camps and finally wangled a ride back to Brazil. Stalking off their ship last week in Rio, they sounded anything but reconstructed. For the Nazi war criminals, they had no word of censure; for U.S. and British treatment, they had nothing but gripes...
...Shulman type of humor, relying upon the wittiest of word play rather than comic situations, is much less at home upon the stage than upon the printed page. But a fair number of recognizable bon mots still remain, together with sketchy outlines of the plot, such as it is. And with some very pleasant music and some clever lyrics by a couple of freshmen in the musical comedy business, named Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee, and most especially with Nancy Walker in the cast, the book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody...