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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...
...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...
...rose Michigan's erect and greying Arthur Vandenberg, the Senate's other San Francisco delegate. Arthur Vandenberg is an accomplished and resounding orator. His usual custom is to pile his desk high with green-bound copies of the Congressional Record, lay his carefully prepared manuscript on top, thus leaving his arms free for gestures. Sometimes he has a small lectern brought in. But this time Senator Vandenberg used neither lectern nor notes...