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This continued discussion on the subject of "is we is, is we ain't" going to fight the Russians is beginning to burn. It can only bring about distrust between ourselves and them and lead eventually to a policy of maintaining a wartime Army and Navy even after Japan is crushed...
...first Phil had to see Irene's three-weeks-old baby. He bent over the baby's crib and chuckled approvingly. "Damned if you ain't a bustin' rig," he said. "You're a bustin...
...grief of the Londoners is much less articulate. When I arrived at the office I heard two charwomen discussing Roosevelt's passing-two women who have, like some of us, endured the blitz, the flying bombs, the rockets in London. 'Blimey!' says one, 'Ain't it a bleeding shime? I'll bet ole Winnie an' Joe'll miss 'im.' 'Do you remember those destroyers he gave us?' says the other. Two poor London charwomen remember...
This newest step forward on the road to Tokyo involved revision of the usual Mac-Arthur strategy of hit 'em where they ain't to one of hit 'em where they are-and call a military policeman...
Ezra Pound, brick-bearded expatriot facing a U.S. treason charge for broadcasting Fascist propaganda from Italy, debated what poetic justice should be in his case, finally concluded: "Well, if I ain't worth more alive than dead, that's that. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinion, either his opinions are no good or he's no good...