Word: chats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour of defeat we know that this campaign has tacked six months on to the U.S. war against Japan. They raided us at this base last night and we dozed in slit trenches. Somebody mentioned the fact that today the Navy landed in Palau. A captain stopped to chat with me this morning. I asked him whether he'd heard the news about Palau. "Palau is swell." he said, "But, God, they've got to hurry - they've got to hurry...
...unkinking the economy of liberated countries, met the committee three times in three days. He had his first full-dress session with the Chiefs of Staff since his return from the Pacific. He summoned Robert D. Murphy, soon to be the top U.S. diplomat in Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date undisclosed). He also did some quick shoring-up of his political defenses, calling in the Governor of Texas and ordering Jimmy Byrnes to pull out all stops on reconversion...
Margaret also had a little chat with Emily's bank manager. She put him in a tizzy by hinting that Emily was not quite normal these days and might try to withdraw her fat bank account. So when Emily -who was growing frightened-phoned the manager to say she wanted to change her will, the manager just said soothingly that he'd drop around some time. But he did not appear. Upstairs, Margaret was filing the top off the ampoule of adrenalin...
...five hours or so before the steamer returns from Nantucket. A bus runs over to Edgartown on the southern end of the island, and to Vineyard Haven and West Chop. You can also cross to the extreme corner of the island to the Indian Reservation at Gay Head. A chat with boat builder Manuel Swartz, whose shop is only a stone's throw from the Edgartown Yacht Club, is worth the price of the whole excursion...
...sober, quiet, homely men, with wives, children and mothers they adore, youngsters with sweethearts back home to whom they're longing to return, men who to our astonishment don't boast or chew gum, don't get fresh and who genuinely appreciate a friendly smile, a chat, a cup of tea, are ridiculously generous...