Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general. Her second, who divorced her last June on charges of adultery, was Earl Beatty, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Prince Marshall Field, son of the late Baron Beatty of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet and dashing hero of Jutland, who is famed for his remark to a flag officer, after seeing two of his cruisers go down: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
...visit with Professor Greg he had somehow felt like posterity itself being able to talk with the living past. He had also said that listening to Professor Greg was like being inland and lying in bed at night listening to the subdued roar of the ocean. This latter remark had reference to the reputation Professor Greg had had as a controversialist. Many years earlier a local reviewer, after interviewing him on the eve of the publication of one of his books, had called him a minotaur who, with his book finished, was wearing his plumed pen gracefully behind...
...comment about the impractibility of disarmament schemes was addressed entirely to a remark of the speaker preceding me who argued that our only alternatives were world government of war. I have always believed it essential that we always be ready to negotiate on this subject. This was also Professor Emer son's interpretation of my remarks. His views in his letter to the CRIMSON of October 25th are shared completely by me. Henry A. Kissinge
Harry S. Truman expressed interest yesterday in visiting the College. His remark was one incident in a day spent energetically campaigning in Boston...
...moral qualities of Francisco Franco as a ruler," said Arriba, "are infinitely superior to those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist paper Pueblo avoided sycophantic assent. Wrote Pueblo sharply: "We believe that rhetoric is indissolubly united to the decadence of Spain over the past centuries...