Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With all (but one) of the forecasters lying writhing around, I nonetheless unhesitatingly predict that your readers will be astonished again if your 1948 Man of the Year isn't President Truman...
Beards & Matches. In the afternoons, he prowled around the base, dressed in a tan slack suit whose rayon trousers bore a conspicuous patch. Evenings, there was "paper work" (poker) in the commandant's white, jalousied house which serves as the Little White House. By 10 o'clock Harry Truman was in bed. Clark Clifford, who padded around barefoot sporting a three-day beachcomber's beard, explained contentedly, "We're getting more fun out of just sitting. My feet are getting so tough I can light a match on them...
...President popped into the almost-deserted press lounge, sneaked up behind a pool player, asked suddenly: "Who's behind the eight-ball?" The player turned around in annoyance, stifled a curse just in time as he recognized the man in the tan fishing cap and sunglasses. "Go ahead with your game," grinned the President. Next week Washington's ex-Governor Mon Wallgren would be arriving, Harry Truman promised, "and I'm going to bring him over and have him show you fellows how to play...
...have the Medal of Honor pinned on his bandages. Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, of New York, severely wounded on Saipan, refused to retreat, was left propped against a tree, with a pistol containing eight rounds. Later, when his body and empty pistol were found, eight Japanese lay dead around...
...Israelis continued to flout U.N. authority. Last week they arrested two U.N. observers, explaining that they had been "found wandering around" near the front without their Jewish liaison officer and had simply been "deposited at the bar in their hotel." When the U.N. requested permission for the Egyptians to send food convoys to troops trapped in the Faluja pocket, the Jews stalled. Said one government official: "They are there as a result of their aggression. If they need supplies, we will be willing to accept their surrender...