Word: bulldogs
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...could not get the Speaker's attention, he would hack petulantly away on the arm of his chair with a penknife. The old man (80) has a somewhat high-pitched voice, corkscrewing oddly out of his mastiff jowls; his stature is small and his build square. But his bulldog face, his straight-backed bearing, his scraggly walrus mustache, and his command of epithet have given him a compelling ferocity...
...passed since the indomitable little Man with the Cigar had promised an indomitable Britain nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Visiting the Normandy beachhead this week Winston Churchill, an aging bulldog, but still a bulldog, spoke with proud, paternal informality to a group of R.A.F. men. Net of his remarks: Germany is through-but Britain...
...aide, whom war has robbed of Fiance Walker. Miss Temple, too young for boys, misses her father intensely and has an innocent crush on Monty Woolley. Mr. Woolley becomes so thoroughly domesticated in the U.S. Home that he even calls a truce with Soda, a huge, wallowing, old, white bulldog who is perhaps the surest-fire character in this sure-fire picture...
...been "pretty nerve-racking." But this time there would be no turning back. Ike's Plan. The plan that General Eisenhower set in motion had its genesis in the dark days after the rescue of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. Then it was little more than a bulldog determination on the part of Britain to fight on alone, and some day, somehow, to carry the war back to the enemy. Now, after years of training and preparation, the plan had grown to a complexity of detail incomprehensible to the civilian mind. Item: the Navy's overall plan...
Robert Ramspeck is a sober, studious Congressman with an affable air which hides a bulldog's tenacity. As chairman of the powerful House Civil Service Committee, he recently took a look at a bill which another smiling, stubborn man, General Henry Harley Arnold, has been trying to shove through Congress. What he saw made Bob Ramspeck clamp his teeth on his pipe stem...