Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costs. Explained a White House adviser "The President was merely convinced that the idea was sound, just as President Roosevelt, before detailed plans were prepared, was convinced that we could produce 50,000 tanks and 60 million jobs." In other words, it was more than a feeler, but not yet a program...
...call for it either. Nevertheless, the French believe that their assembly would at least be a step in the right direction. The British believe that this is self-deception. They claim that (like U.N.) the assembly would raise extravagant hopes of unity where conditions for unity are not yet ripe...
Communist prestige was at low ebb in Western Germany. Yet in Düsseldorf last week a grinning, pinch-faced Stalinist with silver-grey hair was carried like a hero on the shoulders of a cheering, surging mob. He was Max Reimann, Communist boss of Western Germany...
...other Japanese parties we are now merely the dash of wasabi (horseradish) which flavors the sashimi (raw fish). We must become the sashimi, too." In the election, Communist seats rose from four to 35, their popular vote from 3.6% in 1947 to 10.5%. The Communists were not yet the whole sashimi] the voters would have four years to decide whether they liked quite so hot a seasoning...
...though in the old days he had been one of the foremost pranksters of the Dada school of art which preceded surrealism. Dada, said Arp in a recently published book of his writings (On My Way; Wittenborn, Schultz, $4.50), "gave the bourgeois a sense of confusion and distant, yet mighty rumbling, so that his bells began to buzz, his safes frowned and his honors broke out in spots...