Word: whereof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he owns a Rolls and a $250,000 suburban home in Long Island, King knows whereof he piques. "I've been making fun of weddings and bar mitzvahs for years," he says. "Then when my son's turn comes, I turn around and do it worse. It was at the Waldorf. I had a $150 heart-shaped chopped-liver mold. The cook said, 'For $50 more I can make it pulsate.' I had more fun making an idiot of myself...
...naming a complete, 120-man list of candidates for the Knesset. Furious, Eshkol has fought back with the full force of the Mapai organization and with scathing newspaper advertisements that denounce "the old man at Sde Boker" as the prophet who, in the Talmudic phrase, "prophesied and knew not whereof he prophesied...
...chided aides, prodded local factory heads to do better, even publicly decried slow deliveries from the Soviet Union to other Red nations. Khrushchev knows whereof he speaks. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe last week reported that the rate of economic growth in the Satellite nations has again slowed-and no wonder. Communist dominated Eastern Europe, where the laws of supply and demand are often in suspension, is a weird eonomic land of gluts in some places, shortages in others, and confusion almost everywhere...
Stepping to the podium at the University of Alaska in 1953, the commencement speaker made an eloquent plea: "Be bold!" Mining Engineer Ernest Newton Patty knew whereof he spoke. Apart from a first-rate mining school, which Patty himself had built up, the ill-equipped campus near Fairbanks was little more than a "moose college" for young Alaskans who lacked the brains or money to attend colleges Outside. Skeptics suggested that it might well be converted into a penal or mental institution...