Word: forth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows has sprung from timidity and cowardice go to the roots of one's life . . . Mr. Hiss is in the greatest trouble in which a man could be ... It is in regard to a man in this situation that I referred to Christ's words setting forth compassion as the highest of Christian duties and as the highest quality in the sight...
...NATIONS The Saar Again Five times in the last 150 years the Saar Valley has shifted back & forth between France and Germany. Hitler's first international triumph was the 1935 plebiscite in which 90% of Saarlanders voted to go to Germany. After World War II French troops moved into the Saar, left no doubt that France planned to take over its rich mines and its mills, to have & to hold...
...waiters was on hand to serve it. The serving-men were drilled as meticulously as a troop of light cavalry and they were controlled by an intricate traffic-light system: when the lights turned red, they retired from the floor; when the lights flashed green, they charged forth en masse to clear or serve...
...feet demanding a quorum call. It was the opening gun in a new Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday." Through most of the session the swinging doors to the chamber banged back & forth with metronomic regularity as the members scurried to answer eight different roll calls. Each swallowed up about 40 minutes...
...this philosophy and remains more or less incomprehensible. But though the plain reader may be damned and may damn in return, the contribution of "transition" as a marketplace where the avant-garde writer could display his bizarre wares was great. Its pages gave James Joyce a place to bring forth his "Work in Progress" gradually into a hostile world and so smoothed the way for its later appearance as "Finnegan's Wake...