Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yes, the job is hard," he said, but "our work and that of future generations will help regulate the complex civilization wrought by physical science and technology...
...Sure, Joe. "They asked if I had a candidate. I said, 'Yes. He's a fairminded, level-headed Yankee. He is Styles Bridges [anti-New Dealing New Hampshire Senator, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, a supporter of the Taft-Hartley Act]. They seemed pleased at the suggestion and they asked, 'Will he take it?' I said, 'He certainly will.' So I got him on the phone at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York...
...making a Far East economic survey, would head the Economic Cooperation Administration. Hoffman said later: "I tried for two days to think of how to say No, but I just couldn't." Two days later, lugging a suitcase full of dirty laundry, he landed in Washington and said Yes...
...asked an outstanding Chinese Christian leader: 'Do you still feel that you can use the foreign missionary in your Christian enterprise?' He thought for a moment and then answered: 'Yes, but not all. We have to be sure that he is of the kind that will fit in with our plans. . . .' This is a significant utterance. It is 'our plans.' The Chinese are to work out the plan; it is their judgment . . . that is to determine the situation. . . . Within that situation, the foreigner is welcome...
When chubby Nell van Vliet, 22, a baker's daughter, arrived from Holland two months ago, she waved her hand at the questions, ticked off U.S. women swimmers: "Free style? Yes, Ann Curtis, the best in the world. Your backstroke swimmers? Two or three good ones. But breast-strokers?" Nell wrinkled her nose significantly. She knew that she was far & away the best woman breaststroke swimmer going...