Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sloppy Joe's bar on Kansas City's 12th Street, big, black-haired Joe Mario, the bartender, served three soldiers, then sat down and wrote a letter to a soldier in Germany: "Dear Brother: A job well done. . . . There will be no celebrating for me till you come home. . . . Then we will put it on good. I have waited for this day a long time. Till we meet again. God bless you and all the world...
...dear. Two typists promised faithfully to come around today, but they just haven't shown...
...Dear, Quiet Please." The great meeting, so long awaited, was real at last. Moscow fired its maximum salute of 24 salvos from 324 guns; Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman issued resounding statements. TIME Correspondent William Walton, who reached Torgau not long after the first meeting, reported the hesitant speech of a Red Army lieutenant, who, rising in the midst of a joyful hubbub, said...
...dear, quiet please. Today is the most happy day of our life, just as Stalingrad was the unhappiest when we thought there was nothing to do for our country but die. But now, my dear, we have the most crazy of our life. You must pardon I don't speak the right English, but we are very happy so we drink a toast. Long live Roosevelt!" A comrade whispered Harry Truman's name; the speaker looked at him blankly and went on: "Long live Roosevelt! Long live Stalin! Long live our two great armies...
Legitimate newsmen debated whether the men who were intent on wrecking the conference were as dangerous as those who were determined to wisecrack about it. They heard Hedda Hopper cooing in a hotel lobby: "My dear, if this thing doesn't pick up pretty soon, it's going to be the dullest clambake ever held." They read Elsa Maxwell's astute comments on the Russians: "a bunch of magnificent he-men." They debated who was to blame-the officials who issued the credentials wholesale, or the newspapers that assigned the freaks...