Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been active in the European theater of war since June 6th. It is not only unjust but certainly inhumane to send to the Pacific area the combat troops that have fought so valiantly since our landings in Normandy. In the sense of the word "patriotism," almost a year of constant warfare should be enough for anyone...
...boss, Joseph Pulitzer, called him home to edit the editorial page, but Ross missed Washington. He went back in 1939 to stay. One of his constant readers was Truman...
...Home, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, described it, the fleet would consist of 5,830 vessels of all types. Not all of them would be kept in operation; 3,554 would be laid up, preserved by "methods of dehumidification and . . . modern scientific processes." always available in a crisis. In constant, active status, said Home, would be 482 combatant ships, from submarines and destroyer escorts to carriers and battleships...
...Know Each Other." Gone was the Big Three's intangible, invaluable personal relationship. Nothing that Harry Truman might be or do could mend the ties of shared danger, joint responsibility and constant communication which bound Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. The dead President had described the nature and value of that relationship in his last major speech, his report to Congress on Yalta...
Fala, Franklin Roosevelt's shaggy black Scotty and near-constant companion, rode his master's funeral train from Warm Springs to Washington, was exercised at station stops by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Arthur Prettyman, Mr. Roosevelt's genial valet (see cut). Five-year-old Fala attended the Hyde Park burial services with his former mistress, the President's cousin Margaret Suckley (who has taken him back), cowered and whimpered at the gun salute, rolled over on the grass (the President's favorite Fala trick) during the hymn. In spite of barking furiously...