Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman's face. Next day at his press conference a newsman asked for comment on gloomy newspaper views of U.S. policy in Europe. The President smiled. Hindsight is a great thing, he cracked. What about the coal crisis? The President kept his neck in. He would cross each bridge as he came to it, he said...
...Salisbury, N.C., where she had been married on her own Commencement Day nearly 50 years ago. Four were now college professors-one of them a college president, another, a chaplain, just out of the Army with a major's commission. A fifth was still overseas as a Red Cross field director in Italy. Now her children could be prouder than ever...
...dead silence she walked 500 yards along the firing range where the Nazis used to practice. The last 25 yards of her way she had to struggle with a laurel wreath almost as tall as she. Among the lilies and tulips at the base of a 15-ft. cross commemorating those who died at Vught, Wilhelmina of The Netherlands laid her wreath...
...minutes she stood silently facing the wooden cross, then walked to a microphone. "We are looking forward to a better world to come." The words were clear and steady. "May the same unselfish and unflinching spirit of those who fell here prevail in the rebuilding of The Netherlands...
...Brady had no urge to be a selfconscious "primitive," and in Vittel she set about learning the rules of representational drawing. With Red Cross pencils, and with fellow prisoners for models, she spent the time behind barbed wire turning into a better-than-competent craftsman...