Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowds who came to the rallies saw a crisp, vigorous young man, usually wearing a neatly pressed dark suit and starched collar, who entered at the precise moment his name was mentioned in the introduction, who had perfect stage presence, who never sweated except when the klieg lights bore down too heavily, a man who made clear, concise-and mercifully short-speeches...
...when almost everybody in the Army knew that war was surely coming, Hodges (then a colonel) was back in the U.S. and in the Infantry School job which George Marshall had held. Hodges bore down on one doctrine: the young men there were not to be thought of merely as lieutenants taking a prescribed course; they were to be battalion and regimental commanders in the coming war. The Infantry School course became one of the Army's finest...
When the council met, there was nothing to distinguish this meeting from a dozen others. In the assembly hall a blue and white banner over the platform bore the legend "love and security." A large likeness of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen stared down with brooding eyes at bored back-row members who read newspapers through Chiang Kai-shek's opening speech. Unsuspecting General Ho Ying-chin made an ominous report on Japanese advances, conditions in the Chinese Army. Suddenly it, happened. General Ho reeled under a blistering barrage of critical questions...
...value of idleness, painted a fine portrait of him that now hangs over the fireplace of his house in Westport, and told him the one most important thing he had learned in life: "How good people are." In 1911, in Carmel, Calif., he married charming Eleanor Kenyon, who bore him two sons (one is now a naval lieutenant...
...these are integral parts of John Lee's character. Born 57 years ago in Junction City, Kans., the son of an Iowa insurance agent, he was named after his mother, who bore the unusual name of John Clifford Hodges II (her family, vexed that she was not a boy, named her after her father, a captain in the Confederate Army). He graduated from West Point with George Patton and Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers in the class of 1909. As an Army engineer Lee served in the Philippines, built dams on the Ohio River, was aide to Major General...