Unit 5: Selection Vocabulary 2

There’s such an undercurrent in him. He became a moody man.

He was crestfallen, Willy. You know how he admires you. I think if he finds himself, then you’ll both be happier and not fight any more.

In the beginning, when he was young, I thought, well, a young man, it’s good for him to tramp around, take a lot of different jobs.

WILLY (with pity and resolve): I’ll see him in the morning; I’ll have a nice talk with him. I’ll get him a job selling.

(He loses himself in reminiscences.)

I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation.

Under the arbitrary and destructive Nazi rule, virtually every possible enterprise was geared into the German war machine.

The town and city industries are not producing adequate goods to exchange with the food-producing farmer. Raw materials and fuel are in short supply. Machinery is lacking or worn out.

The truth of the matter is that Europe’s requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products—principally from America—are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help, or face economic, social and political deterioration of a very grave character.

Any assistance that this Government may render in the future should provide a cure rather than a mere palliative.

It is already evident that, before the United States Government can proceed much further in its efforts to alleviate the situation and help start the European world on its way to recovery, there must be some agreement among the countries of Europe as to the requirements of the situation and the part those countries themselves will take in order to give proper effect to whatever action might be undertaken by this Government.

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically.

But I was tall. And long. And had large hands. I was made for the game. It found me later in life, compared to most collegiate athletes.

Before the start of the first half, Coach Mulkey kept saying to us, “Every possession—lay it on the line. It’s your last game. Don’t hold back—you don’t want to regret anything.”

They were screaming and shouting; you could feel it reverberating throughout the arena.

We couldn’t give up the big lead we’d established out the gate.

Turnovers, loose balls we didn’t go after, rebounds we didn’t pull down—she called us out and made sure we capitalized on those small details that are so important to a win.