Word: eh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Osaka student began: "I like you, but your policies seem very narrow-minded." Hatoyama laughed uneasily: "But I'm not as arrogant as Yoshida, eh?" A Tokyo girl clerk adjured him: "Hatoyama-san, please be consistent in your austerity program." Ichiro Hatoyama replied: "I intend to be so." Then a Tokyo worker plunged headlong into the intricacies of trade with Red China and Formosa. Easily, as if the question involved no difficulties, Hatoyama answered the worker: "The Chinese Communists and Nationalists are both good, independent nations. Both are our good neighbors. I want to establish relations with Russia...
Next day he was off for home. Acting Premier Edgar Faure, meeting him at Orly Airport, started right off, "The atmosphere in Parliament is bad," and began enumerating. Listening, Mendes looked out over the crowd of gathered well-wishers and snapped: "Eh bien, I seem to have plenty of friends but few supporters...
...ritual bronzes, semiabstractions of dragons and sundry monsters, mellowed by the patina of the centuries. It was the age of the pieces, dating back to the Yin dynasty, that most impressed the nonexpert art lovers. But it was their forms, especially one unique three-legged chüeh (wine goblet) of the Yin period, that delighted the connoisseurs. Said Florence's aged (89) art oracle, Expatriate Bernard Berenson: "The best collection of Chinese bronzes ever brought together under one roof in Europe...
...months," said the sergeant, "but Paris is so expensive. I'll have to find another war." Said a young German Legionnaire, whose mustache was already tinged with grey: "A friend I have had since Normandy was killed on the road last night. So we lose again, eh?" The German turned to an American: "We've lost before, but you haven't. How do you like it, eh...
...Bottom. When the men of the Moona Waa Togue "crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke about the odor of their cargo ("Mellow, eh fellow . . . Real mellow, fellow"), their talk seems the bonus catch in Author Conrad...