Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dollar and the American standard of living. Others may admire the manufacturing capacity and all the wonderful technical, scientific, industrial, etc. discoveries and advances which have come from your country . . . . But no one in the world respects anything of your country, in the full and real sense of the word like one does an Einstein, British Justice, Sweden, Toscanini, Switzerland, the dignity and patriotism of the Germans hung in Nuörnberg in a disgraceful parody of justice, a Nobel prize winner, etc., etc. The only respect a citizen of the U.S.A. may claim from the world would...
...cold winter of private life. By last week, 872 black-bound volumes, averaging 300 pages apiece, lined three walls of Morgenthau's Manhattan office. A stack of material still unbound would run the collection to 900 volumes. Even a cipher-happy New Dealer could only guess at the word count-perhaps...
...George Allen saw an Eisenhower-for-President story in the papers, he lost no time writing his good friend Ike a little note: "How does it feel to be a presidential candidate?" Ike merely scrawled across the bottom of Allen's note: "Baloney! . . . . I furiously object to the word 'candidate.' I ain't and won't be." That was in 1943, Ike was in England, and D-day was still eight months away...
...effective, cigarets (worth $15 U.S. a carton) were an international language. One Salazar Teofilo, a young Spaniard, was arrested last week while doing a land-office cigaret business in the semidarkness of the Strasbourg-St. Denis méetro station. Police soon discovered that Teofilo did not speak one word of French. Through an interpreter they learned that he had entered France clandestinely from Spain five months ago, had grossed 60,000 francs ($500) a week on the magic of the only three words he knew outside his native Spanish: "Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields...
...Cabinet. Since the Parliament has proved a willing tool of the Communist ruling group, the UB is responsible to three Russian-trained Communist Cabinet members and Poland's No. I Communist: Jakub Berman, Under Secretary of State Without Portfolio and Secretary of the Cabinet, who has the last word on foreign affairs; Hilary Minc, Minister of Industry; Colonel Roman Zambrowski, vice director of the political department of the Foreign Ministry and a member of the six-man Presidium of the National Council; and Wladislaw Gomulka, Secretary General of the Polish Communist Party...