Word: erect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurried to embrace his wife, it was apparent that he had grown old as well as famous in battle. His hair was white, his face lined. But he was still erect and turkey-cock as ever...
There He Is! As the crowds roared their applause, he stood stiffly erect in a Fire-Department touring car, bowing, saluting, holding his helmet over his heart. At Lexington, where the world-heard shot was fired in 1775, citizens had raised a banner: "WELCOME GEORGE BLOOD 'N' GUTS PATTON. NICE GOING!" At Cambridge City Hall the car drove beneath arched Fire-Department ladders. Handed a gavel .made from the Washington Elm, Georgie Patton promised, "I'll cherish it forever...
...Since midnight all weapons have been silent on all fronts . . . thus ending a heroic struggle that lasted almost six years. ... In the end the German Wehrmacht succumbed with honor to enormous superiority. . . . Every soldier . . . may lay aside his weapon proud and erect and set to work ... to safeguard the undying life of our people...
Guards & Gavels. Next morning, before the conference steering committee opened its first meeting, newsmen had clustered around erect, impassive Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts when someone cried: "Molotov!" In mid-question, the reporters deserted Smuts. Resembling Cartoonist Otto Soglow's "Little King" amid his guards, Molotov entered the Veterans' Building lobby and walked rapidly to an elevator. Smuts trailed along, tried to enter the same elevator and was blocked by a line of photographers. A U.S. Army captain pushed a photographer aside, and Smuts eased in. Molotov, painfully embarrassed, bobbed a greeting to Smuts. One of the hard...
...crowd one woman stood out, a tall blond woman in a grey-green woolen suit with a green alpine hat, woolen stockings, and heavy walking shoes. Despite the pack on her back, she walked erect...