Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another road, new to the American tourist, is the road through the town of Bastogne, along the Luxembourg border and south into France. Every kilometer for at least an hour's drive along this route stands a graceful stone marker, about four feet high, with crossed Belgian and American flags carved on it and the simple legend...
...recalls her introduction to Franklin Roosevelt when he arrived for the Cairo Conference. "The President spoke in a tone I hadn't heard since childhood: 'See you tomorrow, Child.' Elliott and Franklin stepped up as I moved away to drive General Eisenhower back to the Hopkins villa. "Come on back, Kay,' Franklin whispered. Elliott nodded, 'We're having a little party tonight and it might take your mind off things...
...went back but she only stayed until midnight. She had to drive the Boss and the President on a tour of the battlefields on the next day. When she left the party was "just shifting into high gear." She thought the President "must be a very sound sleeper as well as a very tolerant father." Kay cornered Mike Reilly, boss of the Secret Service contingent guarding Roosevelt. "Here you are on duty," she chided, "and half of your men are tiddly." Mike replied: "We're tough, Kay. Have...
...believes, "are, in fact, a violent and savage race with a faculty beyond all other people of ignoring their neighbors . . . They have a power of poetry which is the despair of all the rest of the world. They produce from time to time personalities transcending ordinary limitations. Then they drive other nations to a frenzy by patronizing these archangels who have come among them, and by indicating that any ordinary Englishman could do better if he liked to take the trouble." Nonetheless, the Englishman "likes to think of himself as a sheep; and so great is his artistry . . . that...
...scheme. Then in the April 24 interim report to the public Committee Chairman Saltonstall cast official doubt on the plan with the statement that investigation had disclosed "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive. The latter "ceiling" was alleged to stem from the concurrent existence of a $90,000,000 all-University drive for general endowment...