Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the moment came. Surrounded by 30 yes-men of the United Mine Workers' executive council, Lewis grabbed a scraggly scrap of paper and a blue pencil. He wrote...
...Yes, next March elections could be approached confidently because the bloc alliance with the Socialists is stronger than ever-it didn't even exist at the last national elections...
...Yes, but what did that amount to? Ernie Bevin wanted to know. Russia was willing to take 10% less, Molotov replied. "Ten percent less than what?" asked Bevin. Molotov, (deadpan): "Ten percent less than has been agreed at Potsdam...
Deputy Sheriffs. "These," said the Abbe later, "are arms which we have kept since the Resistance days. Yes, I know it is illegal. But there are no police in Sains, and the nearest police station is five miles away. As mayor, I am solely responsible for preserving order; you might call these men my deputy sheriffs...
...gentry" because he was the parson's son. To be set apart from the other boys was an agony to him; he suffered many a whipping rather than wear an overcoat, the badge of a "gentleman." Once, after he had won a wrestling match, his opponent said: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week as you do, I should be as strong as you are." From then on, Albert's broth tasted flat. And as he grew up to find that he was favored among men in more than broth and overcoats, Schweitzer was haunted...