Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully guarded privacy. Bess and Harry were doting parents, partly because their only child was born to them late, when each was close to 40, partly because she was a delicate child thin and pale, with frequent deep circles under her eyes. There were other doting relatives: a cluster of uncles and aunts Mrs. David ("Grandmother") Wallace. Bess's mother, and redoubtable Grandmother ("Mama") Truman. Margaret admits that "I was spoiled outrageously...
...ugly working-class characters combine good nature, impudence and long-suffering patience with a proper English sense of a citizen's importance. Example: a squat cockney in a cap, a runny-nosed brat dangling from his shoulder, strides past a cluster of bristling generals to inspect a parade-dress line of soldiers. Giles's caption: "His argument is that as a taxpayer he has as much right to inspect things as anybody else...
...occasion seemed important enough to merit another MacArthur visit to the front. On a bitterly cold but sunny morning, three hours after his divisions jumped off, MacArthur's Constellation, the SCAP, landed on Sinanju's bumpy airfield. Welcomed by a cluster of his top brass, the general climbed into a jeep and pulled the hood of his pile-lined parka over his head. In the back seat rode the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Walton Walker...
...little cluster of Harvardmen (22 this term) banded together in the Harvard Art Association, the drawing possibilities were all pretty dreary: mostly just cubes and cones, bowls of fruit and other still lifes. Why not draw the human figure from nude models, like art students anywhere? They made it a petition and last week the administration said yes. For the first time in Harvard's 314-year history (provided a faculty member is present to chaperone) undergraduates will draw from live models, draped or undraped...
When the two men got together to say goodbye at the airstrip, MacArthur was graciousness itself once more. He stood at attention while the President pinned a fourth oakleaf cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal on MacArthur's open-necked shirt. MacArthur shook hands firmly, smiled and said, "Goodbye, sir. Happy landings. It's been a real honor to talk to you." The Independence took off for Hawaii at 11 a.m. The general was on his way to Tokyo five minutes later...