Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Circumstantial. In Arlington, Va., Robert L. Thomas was acquitted of a numbers writing charge when he came up with the perfect defense: he couldn't write...
...This Grand Old U.S.A." Daylight came in the windows of the four Pullmans. The train joggled on. The boys poured each other some eye-openers and the stories began again and grew more wonderful...
...Riley, in charge of arrangements, explained that they didn't need to worry about formal clothes. Morris said: "Captain Truman told us that we could go anywhere so long as we wore shoes." They practiced a parody of Tipperary to sing to Captain Truman: "Up from Jackson County came a county judge one day. He worked into the White House of this grand old U.S.A...
...shipped to Le Havre, and ten minutes after it arrived was in a fight with British Tommies. At Coëtquidan, the Battery settled down to learning how to fire French 75s. It had already worn out three captains. It was at Coëtquidan that a fourth came along. His name: Harry S. Truman...
...knoll in the Vosges-as the boys told it-Battery D fired the first salvo of the war for the green 35th Division. Promptly a German battery answered back. A Battery D sergeant yelled: "They got us bracketed. Every man for himself." Panic seized the Battery. Over the din came the voice of Battery D's prissy captain: "I'm gonna shoot the first son-of-a-bitch who leaves his gun." Battery D's artillerymen stuck to their guns...