Word: us
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...best post-election crack we've heard, out here, came from a onetime Democrat who said: "Well, us Democrats took a hell of a beating, didn't we-thank God!" CHET SCHWARZKOPF Eureka, Calif...
...October 9 cover story on Poet Robert Frost. In this space and in the Letters section we have already told you something about this reaction-not only to the story itself but also to Boris Chaliapin's cover portrait. Concerning the latter, a college English professor has written us: "Boris Chaliapin has caught the essential things we have learned to revere about the poet: birches, a wall, a running brook, and above all, the searching friendliness of his eyes...
...cried, "What were we doing in Korea in the first place?"-even though on second thought they well knew and had approved the answer. There was a discernible restiveness about the United Nations (would it "tie our hands"?), against Britain and France ("for trying to run out on us"). Three Cabots, a Coolidge and a Lowell joined in a group telegram to Truman and Acheson asking arbitration and concessions to the Communists. There were peeved cracks about MacArthur's misconstrued "home by Christmas" remarks-the familiar fate of a general in a jam and a public caught by surprise...
...British leaders would deny that the final decision was up to the U.S. Said Winston Churchill last week: "When your friend and ally is bearing almost the whole weight, it is natural that he will have the control." Said Attlee on his arrival in Washington: "Trouble always brings us closer together...
...that race riots have their own logic, that discrimination is not merely a habit of thought or a result of faulty reasoning. Finally, men fighting for life cannot be exhorted or "educated" to a peaceful adjustment. "Ain't it a lot," says the leader of the colored gang, "asking us to be better than they are, when we get killed trying to be as good...