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...Army wanted more WAACs (500,000 have been requisitioned) to release more men for combat, Congress was considering bills to make them a part of the regular Army, to allow WAVES to serve abroad. The U.S. was discovering, as England cud long ago, that womanpower is essential to the armed forces in total war. O'Donnell's rumormongering was not calculated to speed that discovery...
...keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox ideas that the vigor of national life depends. Nothing could be more ghastly than a uniform cowlike public opinion which is left willing to browse on artificially fertilized fields and chew the cud of common pasture...
...milk. A nervous photographer interrupted to ask him to move Capper's stern a few degrees to port. Infuriated, Gockerell shouted: "You can't shove a cow like this around. She's got ideas of her own. She's got feelings." Capper calmly chewed her cud, gave down her winning quarts...
...cares to clarify his faith in a nation, and in human beings, the book will be an eminent pleasure to read. It is not within miles of faultlessness; it is not the kind of book that tries to be. It is as placidly worked as a cow works her cud, and naive enough, sometimes, to make that cow smile; but the book contains some of the gentlest, most beautiful writing about American living that has ever been done. For though Anderson, as he says, was "but a minor figure," he is no less significant and symbolic an American than Abraham...
Airman Lindbergh took the job offered, whether he liked it or not, then ducked into the office of his old America First crony, Senator Burt Wheeler. For half an hour they chewed a dark and bitter cud, while newsmen and photographers gathered outside...