Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News of the Navy's unexpected aerial and sea attack on Japan's Marcus Island base was announced in Washington while the attack was still under way. Then, at week's end, came further results. It was announced in Washington that, to blot out the prevalent "armchair war" attitude, Americans at home will get to see heretofore suppressed pictures showing the horrible side of war-the deprivation, danger and suffering the U.S. fighting man endures. One of the first such photos to be released was one to make Americans catch their breaths. It showed the corpses...
Hermanski, Olmo and Schultz fitted the bill. Although the Dodgers continued to lose more games than they won, the newcomers more than upheld their end of the show. This earned Branch Rickey no vote of confidence from the Brooklyn skeptics. Baseball fans, like military armchair strategists, are impatient for quick victories. But Rickey is a realistic general with the long view. He stands firm before Brooklyn like Montgomery before El Alamein...
...edge of the President's huge swivel chair, like a young girl at her first matinee. Only when she leaned forward did the tips of her tiny, open-toed pumps touch the floor. On her left, Franklin Roosevelt, puffing at a cigaret, lounged easily in an oversize armchair. On her right, Eleanor Roosevelt sat stiffly erect, one hand on Madame Chiang's chair in a protective gesture...
...father took in the whole situation at a glance. (The words seemed to lift me out of my cozy little armchair right into another world). 'Don't worry' he said. 'We'll clean up this mess and find something else to eat. You've done something more valuable than cooking. Forget-me-nots are more important than food...
There was the old Petty girl fluttering on another wall, above the liquor-stained armchair; the one he had helped Bob carry over from Matthews when the moved out of the Yard. "Two years isn't much time," Vag thought. He felt the cigarette cling to his dry lips as he shuffled over to the fireplace. The bricks were cold and black. Vag shivered as he remembered all the week-hour bull sessions its fires had warned, and the way they used to talk about a far-away war with a bottle of scotch on the floor between them...