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...capsule, was the implacable Left. Much of Laski's audience belonged to the placable Left-New Dealers who preached a muddled "middle way" for its own sake, without much effort to formulate principles. Yet they cheered Laski, the absolutist, who sufficiently relaxed his absolutism to make a deep bow to a compromiser, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the "supreme friend of democracy and freedom...
...logical considerations," Saise declared, "require that a building for the widest undergraduate use be situated in place of the present traffic island at the confluence of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets...
...mournful melody of the Negro spiritual was not born in the hearts of a people who were enjoying themselves at a Sunday-school picnic. Rather, it was from hearts which knew the meaning of longtime humiliation, ostracism, and rape. Even Adolf Hitler himself must take a bow to American methods of keeping citizens from getting the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship...
...this the closest Comdr. Morison came to peril. He was on the U.S.S. Honolulu when she sustained two torpodo hits in an engagement with a Japanese task force. "One 'fish' knocked the Honolulu's bow off, and the other hit her square on the fantail, where it hung for about ten minutes, though it fortunately failed to explode." Comdr. Morison ventured to call the engagement "quite a hot fight...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz got a special Navy Day bow from the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, who made him a High Chief of Hawaii (first since Franklin Roosevelt, in 1934) and gave him the robe of royalty-a cape of yellow, red, and green mamo, oo, and iiwi feathers. In return for his chief's rating, the Admiral bravely chugged through a thank-you paragraph of Hawaiian...