P.T. Barnum, the great circus impresario, was once accosted by a woman who showed him a scurrilous manuscript about himself, and said unless he paid her, she would have the book printed. Barnum rejected the extortion attempt. “Say what you please,” he replied, “but make sure that you mention me in some way. Then come …
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Vocabulary’s Strenght is Very Important
Pengantar Artikel di bawah ini saya ambil dari Buku 1100 Words You Need to Know, edisi kedua. Fotocopy buku tersebut saya dapatkan dari teman saya yang ambil kursus TOEFL di Sam College Bandung. Waktu itu saya yang bahasa Inggrisnya pas-pasan, setengah mati buat memahami kalimat demi kalimat yang dibahas di buku itu. Apalagi sekitar tahun …
Promise To Keep
From August, 1959 until his death in January, 1961, Dooley suffered almost continuous, excruciating pain. His normal weight of 180 was cut in half, and even the pain-killing drugs could no longer bring relief. Knowing that he did not have long to live, Dr. Dooley worked without respite on behalf of MEDICO, the organization he …
Stymied By Personal Sickness
After an extensive lecture tour in 1956, Dr. Dooley returned to Laos to set up a mobile medical unit. Because the Geneva Agreement barred the entrance of military personnel to the country, he resigned from the navy and went to work as a civilian. That story is told in THE EDGE OF TOMORROW. Next year, …
Dooley’s Mission
Aboard the refugee ship, Dooley’s destiny took shape. He became paintfully cognizant of the malnutrition, disease, ignorance, and fear that afflicted the natives. In addition, he discerned how active the communist had been in spreading their anti-American propaganda. Tom Dooley pitched in to build shelters in Haipong and to comfort the poor Vietnamese there before …
Jokowi declares victory, Prabowo won’t concede defeat
Presidential frontrunner Joko “Jokowi” Widodo delivered a victory speech on Wednesday evening before thousands of supporters at the historical Proclamation Monument in Central Jakarta, where the founding fathers declared Indonesia’s independence., frontrunner – pelopor In his speech, Jokowi said that winning the presidential election meant he would serve the people, take care of people’s interests …
Enter Dr. Thomas A. Dooley
In 1956, LOOK magazine named Thomas Dooley as one of the year’s ten most outstanding men. Just under thirty years of age at the time, Dr. Dooley had already distinguished himself by caring for a million sick and emaciated Vietnamese refugee. When fighting broke out in the divided country of Vietnam, the northern Communist Viet …
Happy Ending?
Following an execution session, the school board ordered the principal to terminate the suspension and to send the boys back to class forthwith. Unless it could be shown that their presence disrupted the learning process, there was no reason to bar the boys. It was a bitter pill for the principal whose irritation was exacerbated …
Haircut Dilemma
The school authorities were stymied. Public opinion had been marshaled against them. No longer was it a simple case of disciplining two wayward lads. Suddenly it had taken on the appearance of a nightmare in which the principal was either hanged in effigy or pictured in cartoons making a villainous swipe at the two innocent …
The Tempest Spills Out of the Teapot
Once the newspaper got the story, the case of the longhairs became a cause celebre. Ron and Len were interviewed, seen on T.V, and regarded by their fellow students as heroes. “These are not delinquents or hoods,” one reporter wrote, “but clean-cut American boys who are being harassed by monolithic school system.” A caustic editorial …