Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barkley, wearing a black patch over his bad eye, called a caucus of Democratic Senators. For well over an hour he begged them to let the George Bill come to a vote first, pass it, and then vote on Henry Wallace's qualifications. Finally, he pulled out his ace argument. At this very moment, said he, Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge of" a historic international conference.* At such a time, he argued, the Senate must not slap down Mr. Roosevelt at home. Wyoming's dapper little Joseph O'Mahoney added his plea: "It is time...
...Three faced the supreme question-what to do with Germany?-Joseph Stalin had an ace which Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt could only look at and admire. They had nothing like it: a complete organization of German civilians and army officers, known to the German people and ready to move into the conquered Reich if Stalin so wills...
Coming back from the Oriental sea frontier of the U.S., Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, ace in World War I and now Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air, said when he stopped off at Pearl Harbor: "We can never go back to prewar status. We have to keep permanent bases in the Marianas. Those islands . . . [should be] another Pearl Harbor . . . another Pearl Harbor 3,500 miles west of this place here...
Among the ace runners who have volunteered to race the treadmill are Glenn Cunningham, Gil Dodds, Gene Fenske, and Gunder Haegg. Haegg astounded the doctors by turning in a better performance running 11 miles an hour than an ordinary man can at seven. They described the lanky Swede as "the most beautiful running machine" they had seen...
...weeks later Major Thomas B. McGuire Jr., top-scoring active ace* in the Pacific (38 Jap planes), died as a result of accident and enemy action. McGuire made a fast turn to go to the rescue of his wingman, who was being attacked, when his P-38 stalled at 200 feet and crashed into the sea. To McGuire's wife Lieut. General George Kenney wrote: "The word that Tommy has been shot down brought me one of the worst of a number of bad moments I have had to face since the war began...