Word: abe
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Pershing was the eldest of nine and he split rails like his hero Abe Lincoln. He also taught school and studied law until he heard about West Point. Simply because he had the chance to get a free education, he took up the career for which he was born. John J. Pershing became a soldier...
...last of the top-drawer bright young men of the New Deal packed up last week. Able, jug-eared Abe Fortas, 33, quiet No. i man to noisy Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, had asked the Army to take...
...Said Abe Fortas: "If I stayed, my usefulness would soon be ended by the attacks I know would come. Besides, I'd like to see a little of this fighting...
Major Raymond Massey ("Abe Lincoln"), World War I veteran who has been in the Canadian Army eight months, was retired to the Reserves because of ill health...
...Hardy Abe. Lincoln, the son of a lean, tired mother, was conceived during a bitter rainy spell at the end of an unusually hard Kentucky winter. All this, says Petersen, predisposed him to a lanky figure, active metabolism, fickle blood pressure and extreme sensitiveness to the environment. In the harsh winters of the Kentucky and Illinois wilderness, he grew up with strong inhibitions (developed to conserve his physical strength), tired, moody, sensitive to the weather and to men. In his sex life he was by turns passionate (he "could scarcely keep his hands off [women]") and inhibited. But the weather...