Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side, Nicholson had never before run for political office. Eight months ago he launched a one-man crusade which carried him through blizzards and bitter winter cold to every corner of the state. An investment banker, former Legion post commander, and vigorous internationalist, he will level his chief fire on Big Ed's conservatism and longstanding isolationist record...
Lieut. General Curtis LeMay, Air Force chief in Europe, had called for a special 24-hour effort. The entire load was to be coal, to be distributed as an Air Force birthday present to families with two or more children in the Western sectors of Berlin...
...guard Nick Callahan, last year's captain. Tackle John Kristopik is out for the season with a leg injury, and his running mate, Troy Sitter, has moved downriver to Boston University. That leaves only Paul O'Brien, Bob DiBlasio, Bill Rosenau, and "Chief" Bender as Varsity candidates...
...sense enough to know that a man may honorably change his vocation, and by others unwilling to see that in doing jobs for his country, MacLeish was expressing in a different way the love of it that had given life to his best poems. Of the Indian chief Crazy Horse, victor over Custer, he had written...
...citizen and a practicing poet." The results, so far as verse is concerned, are certainly minor, still echoing the big, pretentiously philosophical tones for which his poetic equipment is essentially unsuited, but here & there MacLeish is at home again with the private emotions that he can make ring true. Chief among such emotions is something that some synthetically tough "intellectuals" have decried as nostalgia, as if the muses were not forever daughters of memory, or as if there were something necessarily weak about missing other times, places, or people...