Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright hauled down his flag, threw himself and his men on the mercy of the little conqueror, went off with them to share the nation's degradation. Far to the South, in Australia, General MacArthur penned his memorable epitaph: "Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly...
Final Instructions. Just before he left, he made a short speech to all the officers of the division. It was such a speech, as the one in which he was quoted as saying: "This stuff about tremendous losses [in the invasion] is tommyrot." But that comment was no gush of rash optimism; in context it was a simple statement of Bradley's faith in the fighting qualities of U.S. infantrymen...
...many of the pilots aboard one of the Navy's big carriers were Southerners that a plane dispatcher just naturally started waving them off with the Texas Lone Star flag, instead of the usual checkered square. This caused small comment. But when the dispatcher switched to the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy, it was too much...
Another question put to Miss Caddick: "How does Shakespeare come over in American theaters?" Answer: "Don't you know that much of the slang in the American language comes right out of Shakespeare?" Comment by the questioner: "Well, I still don't think the American accent is suited to blank verse...
Coach Floyd Stahl has declined to comment on prospects. The team has been practicing for about three weeks. At first the pitchers and catchers warmed up in Briggs Cage. Now, with the coming of spring weather, the squad has moved outdoors...