Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this quiet level Tom Dewey had opened his campaign. As a triumphal trip it bore not the slightest resemblance to Wendell Willkie's 1940 beginnings, when voters packed the sidewalks and jammed arenas to hear the big, attractive, tousled, hoarse candidate shout his gospel. Dewey got small crowds, few cheers, and in all probably shook no more than 7,500 hands on the whole trip. But as he returned to Pawling this week, Tom Dewey knew that it was still August. Between now and the last week of October lay much planning, much hard work...
This time there were no bomb bores with a shopworn story of a lucky miss. This time the robomb itself was the bore. Almost all other topics had gone out of casual conversation. Even last week's good war news was merely a minor point in the business of getting through another...
...platoon sergeant, he put his men first, himself last. But in battle he was not self-effacing. One night in October 1942, he bore the heavy brunt of a Jap attempt to retake Henderson Field. When the 19 men in his section had been shot down, Mitch Paige hefted a machine gun, and, scribbling the night with fire, played lethal tag with the enemy. Reinforced, he led the fresh men in a counterattack. At battle's end, no Japanese lay dead before Mitch Paige's sector. Said he: "I did what I could...
...Nast, Winslow Homer. Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty showed Negro slaves galloping to sanctuary in the Union lines. Of A Ride, Painter Johnson wrote: "A veritable incident . . . seen by myself at Centreville, on the morning of McClellan's advance." Most of the Civil War pictures bore out a remark once made by Ulysses S. Grant to a contemporary war artist: "We are the men who make history . . . but you are the men who perpetuate...
...made duck carried Charles de Gaulle from ship to beach. A British-driven jeep bore him inland. The first Frenchmen the General spied were two gendarmes standing on a roadside. The jeep braked sharply. The gendarmes, seeing a French general, came over...