Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outbreak of the war, Comdr. Tully was Gunnery Officer of the Navy transport U.S.S. Harry Lee, which had the distinction of serving as training ship for Guadalcanal's famed First Marine Division. Subsequent transfers took him to the transport U.S.S. Calvert, and then to the U.S.S. Charles J. Badger. On the latter ship, a 2100 ton destroyer, he served as Gunnery Officer in the spring of 1943, with the rank of lieutenant...
...Badger's Paws. Göring was simple and unaffected when he welcomed Welles to his garish home, Karinhall, in the flat North German birch and pine woods. But the U.S. diplomat could not keep his eyes off the tubby Nazi's hands, which were "shaped like the digging paws of a badger." On his right hand Göring wore an enormous ring set with six huge diamonds; on his left he wore an emerald at least an inch square. Göring's hands were presumably more eloquent of German intentions than anything Welles heard...
...some observers it appeared that the Administration was casually trying to brush off a mere Republican State Governor who persisted in being tiresome about a trivial matter. But the outraged Governor continued to badger and challenge the Federal Government for his full, undiluted, sovereign State's rights. Each side stood stubbornly and firmly on its dignity. But Tom Dewey, who cut his political eyeteeth on just such gang-busting as the Lepke case, seemed to be standing on the firmer legal ground. The next move was up to Washington-and what seemed to be at stake was something bigger...
...Badger for Thye...
...PHOTOGRAPH AS THYE IS EMINENTLY QUALIFIED TO BE GOVERNOR," BUT HE IS, IN REALITY, ABLE, VERSATILE LESTER BADGER...