Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start boning up on the job. But the columnists' vicious attacks on incumbent Secretary James Forrestal held the President's announcement up: he would not let Forrestal leave under fire. Last week, with the heat off, Harry Truman finally accepted Forrestal's resignation with an appreciative "Dear Jim" note. Then the President formally picked as Forrestal's successor big, beefy Louis Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt's onetime Assistant Secretary of War and the Democrats' deserving fund-raiser in the campaign...
...first painted Joan's story in a picture book designed to make better patriots of French youngsters. "Open this book, my dear children," he wrote in 1896, "with piety, in memory of the humble peasant girl who is the patron saint of France . . . Her story will tell you that in order to conquer, you must believe you will conquer. Remember this on the day when your country will have need of all your courage." In 1911, he finished the six Joan paintings...
Before speaking, Dr. Sitwell fumbled about in her purse for a moment, and then said, "Oh dear, I seem to have lost my watch!" Her audience reacted warmly to this; the lady next to me saying, with a fond chuckle, "Isn't that just like a poet!" "Oh, here tis," said Dr. Sitwell, and we were...
...spiritual Cardinal Mindszenty in his martyrdom of mind and body that we can fortify by our prayers, that in his soul he may know that in another part of the world other men are holding high God's torch of justice . . . And in our own dear land each free man ... must protect and fight to keep his own integrity of conscience, his own God-given freedoms ... to save America and the rest of the democratic, God-loving world from trickery, torturings, disasters and defeat...
...tensest Senate hour Dr. Harris can recall is the time in 1944 when Senator ("Dear Alben") Barkley broke with Roosevelt. His most anxious time of Senate prayer: Dday, when the Senate stood silent for a few moments, then repeated after him the 23rd Psalm...