Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Navajo language will of course be used when, and only when, certain preliminaries are effected...
Prophecy I (1920) was remembered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Charles G. Ross: "The handwriting is there as plain as ever was mene mene tekel up-harsin. . . . The general service pension is coming. It's as certain as death and taxes...
...people in "Bloody Breathitt" (pronounced breath-it) County, Ky., homicide has a purely clinical interest. They ask: How big was the gun? How big a hole was blowed in him? There is also a certain social distinction ("There goes the man who killed Little Jack Combs. He did it with a big, shiny .44. It made a big, round hole in Little Jack's belly. And Little Jack laid there on the ground, talkin' before he died...
This incident, which is supposed to have happened early in the days of Il Duce's power, might easily have taken place again last week. Once more the Dictator was alone and tired. Italians still salaamed to his face on screens, his name on walls, but there were certain new mental reservations in their reverence. Foreign journalists in Rome received anonymous letters: "The Italians desire the end of the dictatorship which renders impossible prosperity and peace. Viva Italia! Viva la libert...
What Mussolini replied was not divulged. But it was very strongly hinted in Rome last week that certain of the points were distasteful to Italy, and that the whole idea of extending and bending the Axis was not well received...