Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. The Philippines were defended then by some 3,000 U.S. soldiers, a handful of mobile 155-mm. howitzers, some old 755, about 100 first-line planes and some old craft which, said the pilots banteringly, could make 100 miles an hour if they dove straight down. If war broke out, all MacArthur's Philippine Army was to be transferred to the American Commander in Chief of the Philippine Department...
When John Lewis unexpectedly gave in, agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration, observers wondered why this roaring lion had suddenly begun to coo like a sucking dove. Some suggested a possible reason: Mr. Lewis had good reason to suppose that the arbitration board-U.S. Steel Corp. President Benjamin Fairless, Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the U.S. Conciliation Service, and John L. Lewis himself-would decide in Mr. Lewis' favor...
...same is true, to a lesser extent, of Bach's great idol and older contemporary, Dietrich Buxtehude. He has been so cozily dove-tailed as an "influence" that no one finds time to re-examine the traditional dictum and set him back on his pins as a composer in his own right. My personal feeling is that once exhumed, such a piece of Buxtehude's music as the Toccata in F that Weinrich is playing will be enjoyed by a good many people for its directness and simplicity of utterance, and a certain Germanic vigor, but that after a time...
...years the plutocratic International Settlement had taken pleasure in the Marines. It enjoyed their brass band, their weekly parades at the Racecourse, their curio buying. It enjoyed Marine personalities like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement...
...Dartmouths cleaned up the scoring for the afternoon in the middle of the final quarter when Penson dashed out of his frame to collect a high-headed ball. Surrounded by the Green line he allowed the ball to roll free before the goal and substitute left inside Johnny Earle dove at it and sent it bouncing off his chest between the uprights...